ISBN Barecode reader in Python?

Ville M. Vainio vivainio at gmail.com
Mon May 5 14:41:01 EDT 2008


Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com> writes:

> The killer application for ISBN lookup on Amazon is checking prices 
> while in the bookstore. Being able to email a photo from your phone  
> and then getting an email with the Amazon price in response would be 
> way easier than typing the isbn into Google or whatever.

Yeah, or just create a S60 python app to do it directly. Basically,
just put up a web service somewhere that allows pushing an image of
the barcode and returns the lowest price for that item, and the PyS60
app will be done in a day.



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