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Started 2 years ago by Ronen Halevy
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Ronen Halevy

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Joe let me know about Edocrab, barcode spelled backwards, from Steelthorn which is a free app that lets you scan barcodes with your camera. Once you take a picture of a barcode you can get online price comparisons, reviews, images, video clips, and more from your BlackBerry.

I could have sworn there was another BlackBerry app that did this but I cannot seem to find it. Still Edocrab is free and gets the job done. On the flip side I barely shop for anything in stores that I could alternatively buy online. For example, when was the last time you bought a CPU or computer part from a regular retail store?

You can read more about Edocrab and download the app at http://www.edocrab.com

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Edocrab – Free App Scans Product Barcodes for Price Comparison

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Ronen Halevy

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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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Nikolaus Walch

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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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Ronen Halevy

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

Deleting……

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Nikolaus Walch

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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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Ronen Halevy

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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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Ronen Halevy

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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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Nikolaus Walch

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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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Nikolaus Walch

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

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Ronen Halevy

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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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Dan Entin

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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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Ronen Halevy

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delete your phone instead

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