If you are doing a goodread app, take a look at zbar

[Roberto]

Here's a sample of what you can do with it:

7 lines of code to go from book to goodreads page :-)

http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/web...

[Michael]

Awesome.

[Jonathan]

yah that's pretty smart

[Jonathan]

we should have a "cool goodread apps" thread / sticky.

[Roberto]

Thanks :-)

We are trying to think a bit outside of the box for our app. BTW: I noticed you have a iphone app: zbar works on the iphone, so you could add this kind of feature, too...

[Michael]

I think we were looking at 2 other bar code scanner libs, but this might be better. We're looking into it.

[Curtis]

hey i tried this zbar - no luck (os x - so i could only use zbarimg) also gave XING a shot - both with 2 different cameras

seems to be hard to get focus - any ideas how to surmount this?

[Roberto]

Making the image capturer work is very hard. With the webcam you can fidget and eventually get it right.

[Curtis]

ahh i understand now - i expect that it is a very difficult thing - especially with blurry photos.