[removed] How to read a hand held barcode scanner best?

Question

I\'d like to be able to scan barcodes via a hand held scanner and handle the results with Javascript.

A barcode-scanner works almost like a keyboard. It outputs the

Answer 1

I've just started working on a plugin that handles barcode scanning and credit card scanning (built on jQuery):

https://github.com/ericuldall/jquery-pos

Simple implementation:

$(function(){
    $(document).pos();
    $(document).on('scan.pos.barcode', function(event){
        var barcode = event.code;
        //handle your code here....
    });
});

So far this plugin is only tested with one type of scanner and codes containing only digits, but if you have further requirements that aren't working with it, I'd be happy to adapt it to your needs. Please check out the github page and give it a whirl. Contributions are encouraged.

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