OCR could take a while. If you have a Droid, you can scan the UPC symbol and bring up Amazon.com (a guy where I work showed me). You could then dump each listing into a wishlist on Amazon, then pop that into a Word document. Not all of the UPCs might come up, but most of them should. Hope that helps!
If you’re running on a mac, Delicious is a good piece of software. If you don’t want to spend anything then try Books.app both can use an iSight camera to scan the barcode and lookup all the info automagically.
“A good start is to learn all about ISBN and related systems. Maybe spend some tine browsing librarything.com and read some of their “howto” cataloguing threads. A quick browse reveals threads like Old books without ISBN and ISBN’s for old books? which seem relevant. “
OCR could take a while. If you have a Droid, you can scan the UPC symbol and bring up Amazon.com (a guy where I work showed me). You could then dump each listing into a wishlist on Amazon, then pop that into a Word document. Not all of the UPCs might come up, but most of them should. Hope that helps!
ISBN numbers dude. Look them up, copy & paste the details.
If you’re running on a mac, Delicious is a good piece of software. If you don’t want to spend anything then try Books.app both can use an iSight camera to scan the barcode and lookup all the info automagically.
Talk to a man by the name of Melvil Dewey
“A good start is to learn all about ISBN and related systems. Maybe spend some tine browsing librarything.com and read some of their “howto” cataloguing threads. A quick browse reveals threads like Old books without ISBN and ISBN’s for old books? which seem relevant. “
http://www.collectorz.com/book/book_catalog.php
1) Barcode Scanner 2) ISBN barcodes on the bool.
LibraryThing.com Trust me, I am a librarian.
Once again, the dewey decimal system to the rescue!