I have a partner who would like to run a background application to capture data from a USB scanner. He does not want the data to come in as keyboard data since the host computer will be used for other things. How can he set up a scanner so that the data is coming in almost like serial (on a know port that he can monitor)?
Setting up a USB scanner for something other than keyboard data. |
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Hi Larry, Using SNAPI the application will access the data via a buffer that is specificied by the application.
Depending of the scanner model there can be several options 1. Set it into USB IBM Handheld mode. I'm not familiar how to communicate with the scanner in this mode but it's definitely possible as at least one of our partners has POS application for this mode. 2. Use COM Port Emulation mode (the PC driver is available from support.symbol.com). In this mode you will use virtual serial port to communicate with the driver 3. Set it to SNAPI mode (imagers only). SNAPI SDK is also available from support.symbol.com Valery