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Has anyone worked with a small handheld tablet, creating a FWH application, and using the tablet's built in camera to scan in a barcode ?

I want to build a small application for a hand held windows tablet that calls the camera and performs a scan. It will be used for scanning items to an invoice, and will interact directly with the inventory.

The question is about how to use the built in camera for scanning a barcode. I know there are apps that can be used to convert the camera to scan a barcode, but thought maybe someone has done this successfully from FWH. Perhaps it is a feature that can be added to FWH, much like the addition of the ability to take pictures.

Thanks for your input.

Tim

I have done it with built in camera. Saved picture(s) to jpg files. Then used eztwain functions to open file and read barcode (3of9 built in). If barcode in other formats would need 3rd party barcode engine that can be bridged.
The version of Eztwain i use only requires dll files. No installation of .net, ocx, or other software.