Zebraimg

A while back I set up an account with Shelfari. Stuck without a barcode scanner, I came up with an alternative method of importing the ISBN numbers…

Take a photo of each book spine (with barcode) with the pocket digital camera, and stick them on the computer. With the magic of Zebraimg and Bash, it spits out a list of ISBN numbers ripe for importing in Shelfari.

echo ISBN > /tmp/isbn.txt && zebraimg -q *.JPG  | grep -i ean-13 | sed -e s/EAN-13:// | uniq | sed -e s/^/[/ | sed -e s/$/]/  >> /tmp/isbn.txt

Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • FriendFeed
  • Identi.ca
  • LinkedIn
  • Live
  • PDF
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
  • Yahoo! Bookmarks

2 Comments

  1. mrben says:
    You should’ve said – I can lend you my barcode reader if you like.
  2. Carolyne says:
    Very nice! I might give that I try.
    C

Leave a Reply

Powered by WP Hashcash