Re: Controlling a scanner with PHP

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:31 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: > George, > > You always have the interesting challenges served to you. > > Is this at the client or the server end? Controlled through the browser? > Only at the browser on the server? > I think there's a discussion about .com objects in the manual. > I did a solution a few years back controlling barcode scanners with dio PHP extension. You can also use a combo of text files and parsing from stdin through something like minicom, but with image scanners that may be a bit too tricky. Sounds cool though, wish I had some time to play.... --Paul