{"id":299,"date":"2005-10-12T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~waw\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2005-10-12T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:42:08","slug":"scan-them-barcodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2005\/10\/12\/scan-them-barcodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Scan them barcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a fun day making my Mac speak barcodes.<\/p>\n<p>This relates back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~waw\/blog\/?p=279\">Tina art project<\/a>. I did a number of targeted searches onn the web and managed to find a low-cost software tool that scans barcodes using an iSight camera, name of&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evological.com\/evobarcode.html\">EvoBarcode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I finished up an AppleScript that allows you to drop an ASCII text file on the applet icon and generate a foder full of barcode EPS files<\/p>\n<p>I figured out how to make EvoBarcode work<\/p>\n<p>I wrote another appplescript that would use mac text-to-speach to speakl the scanned barcodes<\/p>\n<p>I recorded a bunch of sound files of me speaking the words<\/p>\n<p>I modified the above applescript to play the files if the scanned word=filename. This uses another freebie application, <a href=\"http:\/\/MicrocosmSoftware.com\/playsound\/\">playsoundfile<\/a> 1.6.2<\/p>\n<p>Getting together with Tina Tuesday to discuss results.<\/p>\n<p>Need to see how well EvoBarCode does with color images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a fun day making my Mac speak barcodes. This relates back to the Tina art project. I did a number of targeted searches onn the web and managed to find a low-cost software tool that scans barcodes using an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2005\/10\/12\/scan-them-barcodes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6517,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}