I'm building a web application with ASP.NET MVC4, it's some kind of repair case processing. There are several computers that will "run" the web application.
When there's a new part arriving, we want to get its serial number and put it in a form in the web page. Manually entering the code is prone to errors and therefore not an option.
Now I was wondering how one could connect an ordinary barcode scanner to a web application? As far as I know, there's no way to access any devices on the client pc from an HTML5-only web page. Did anyone face the same issue?
Of course, we could build a little helper tool with C# that runs on the clients and talks to the web app server, but that would render the whole thing rather unattractive.
Configure the Barcode scanner to work as a HID-device, it will then put the scanned barcode into the selected box on the application.
If it's a serial port scanner then you can probably use a KeyWedge application to accomplish the same.
If it's a Symbol/Motorola scanner you will find all the information you need on support.symbol.com.