Reading a barcode off the sp5 screen?

[Guest kkrull]

I scanned the barcode off my gym pass onto my phone because I keep losing it. My gym uses a laser scanner like the supermarket. Any bets on whether it will work. I bet it does.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Nah, too much reflection surely?

[Guest Will]

i've seen a testcase of this working, which was scannable in black and white on mono lcd screen (a nokia) - worked with led scanners, not sure on laser.

[Guest rsearley]

i've seen a testcase of this working, which was scannable in black and white on mono lcd screen (a nokia) - worked with led scanners, not sure on laser.

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Some Years back when i worked in a retail outlet and we got our first integrated POS system, we tried scanning everything and anything to see what happened

we did manage to photo some barcode on a digital camera, then scan them off the lcd

it was the old style LED scanner, not laser

[Guest kkrull]

Didn't work with the laser scanner. I was so very bummed.

[Guest rsearley]

Didn't work with the laser scanner. I was so very bummed.

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You could go low tech and scan/photo copy it and stick it to your battery, so it is there iff you need it!

[Guest SpacedOut]

Once, while selling a Cingular phone to a customer & was tired of waiting for the printer at work, I tried scanning one of the phone activation barcodes off of our LCD monitors, and, unfortunately, it didn't work.

I don't think you'll have much luck with scanning a displayed barcode off your screen, because barcodes work off of no-reflection (black) and reflection (white) to read the 0's and 1's, and not only will your screen reflect too much ambient light, but also "blacks" on LCD screens aren't true black and still eminate light, which will probably confuse the barcode reader. Sorry!