13 Comments to “Edocrab – Free App Scans Product Barcodes for Price Comparison”

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   Posted by: mckinneycm

   September 16, 2009 at 12:09 pm EST

   I installed it on my Bold and when I press ’scan’ it says:

   “Sorry, your device does not meet the hardware requirements for scanning barcodes. Please use the ‘Search’ feature to manually enter the barcode instead.”

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     Posted by: mckinneycm

     September 16, 2009 at 12:22 pm EST

     So, after reading the FAQs, I see that only the Storm, Tour, and 8900 are supported.

     Deleting……

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       Posted by: lol

       September 28, 2009 at 10:17 am EST

       delete your phone instead

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   Posted by: Nikolaus Walch

   September 16, 2009 at 12:10 pm EST

   I tried and tried and tried to take a good enough picture of a barcode using my 8900. Each time it said it wasn’t good enough and let me compare the picture I took with the “perfectly ideal” (non-camera-phone looking) example they have. Too sensitive man!

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     Posted by: Nikolaus Walch

     September 16, 2009 at 12:39 pm EST

     Ok I did finally get it to work. My previous attempt was on a water bottle, which is rounded, so maybe that didn’t help. This time it was of a box of office pens. It was recognized, BUT returned no search results. Need to take a trip to Best Buy to look at LED TVs

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   Posted by: chris overly

   September 16, 2009 at 12:55 pm EST

   The other application you were thinking of is from Amazon, and it is free… although it does require an Amazon.com account to function.

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     Posted by: Sammy

     November 9, 2009 at 7:12 pm EST

     it only searches amazon….not much price comparison. ama-monsters.

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   Posted by: trucky

   September 16, 2009 at 1:26 pm EST

   There is an app called NeoReader that actually works and is free. Edocrab installed on my Curve but wouldn’t do more than let me manually type in the code.

   http://www.neoreader.com/home.html

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     Posted by: Nikolaus Walch

     September 16, 2009 at 2:26 pm EST

     Thanks for the suggestion of NeoReader. The site’s video of a woman scanning a universal barcode at a bus stop to get all the bus schedule info on her phone is a pretty cool concept, but I’ve never seen those at any bus stop I’ve seen. I tried to install on my 8900, but though recognized as an 8900 it is not supported. It let me see what BB models are supported, and the Bold and 83XX as well as Pearl and Storm. I’m trying the Bold (9000) version on my 8900 to see how that works. If you phone is NOT supported, their mobile site lets you enter the barcode manually, which is really nice. Mobile site is: get.neoreader.com. The UI is more clumsy then edocrab, but worth investigation.

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       Posted by: Nikolaus Walch

       September 16, 2009 at 2:30 pm EST

       Correction: the optimal OTA URL to enter barcodes manually is: http://get.neoreader.com/mobile/hsd/go

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       Posted by: Dan Entin

       September 17, 2009 at 11:37 am EST

       NeoReader is a 2D barcode reader like ScanLife. Edocrab is for the purpose of scanning traditional UPC barcodes – similar to the popular ShopSavvy app for Android.

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   Posted by: A Claye Jones

   September 17, 2009 at 6:47 am EST

   Edocrab is a pass for me since it doesn’t work on my Bold. I’ll wait till they fix it. I thought Neo Reader only worked for the new bar codes? The Amazon App doesn’t work that great. It doesn’t scan bar codes, but you can take pics with it to save and it will find something similar to what you want. Not entirely the same as Edocrab or Neo Reader.

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   Posted by: Sammy

   November 9, 2009 at 7:15 pm EST

   I heard there was a new release for edocrab today on twitter with new features. I downloaded it and it works great so far. Going to use it to buy my text books this fall. I enter the UPC since my bold has a crappy non auto focus camera, but it’s quick and pretty awesome when I’m buying stuff at best buy and such and want to compare it to online!

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