Simple USB scanners and hand held terminals with TE (terminal emulation) software – two ways to add scanning to existing applications. But what other ways can you communicate to your host system? In the “Olden Days” (back in the ’90s) we did a lot of “batch upload” systems; we stored barcode scans in a device [...]

Last issue we covered the simplest way to add barcode scanning; USB scanners attached to any PC or terminal. If you are old enough to remember “dumb terminals” then you know where “Terminal Emulation” came from. But what does that mean for barcoding? A hand held terminal is something you see every day in Walmart [...]

ADC stands for “Automatic Data Collection”; a catch all term for replacing manual data gathering with automated processes. In this series we’ll look at all the different ways you can automate a manual process. ADC is your “one stop shop” for getting this done. Going from the simple to the complex; the simplest way to [...]

There are still applications where paper forms are necessary — but even those are changing. A device called a Digital Pen works exactly like an ordinary pen with one important difference. A digital pen stores the keystrokes of the writer; when the pen is docked or even connected to a Smartphone, all of the information [...]