[plug] Catalogue Database (DVD, etc. titles?)

[Bernd Felsche]

"Daniel Foote" <freefoote at gmail.com> writes:

>> That leads me to a question
>> I have a Prop Win based database/POS system with thousands (7
>> years) of manually entered EAN-13 and my own shortcodes that
>> when/if I end up moving it over to linux I will need to extract
>> is there someone that could help me with that?

>> BTW the software company doesn't exist any more.

>I'll volunteer my help if you wanted it. Can't say pulling apart
>binary data is something I have a lot of experience in...

>I do actually have an ulterior motive... I wrote my own inventory
>system for the contents of my pantry, and I've been using that for the
>last nine months to track things. I would have liked to get barcodes
>automatically, but it seems that the data really isn't around. I've
>collected about 400 barcodes and descriptions over this time (all
>manually entered as encountered).

You'll want to keep track of when you last scanned each code as EAN
(GTIN) are only guarranteed to be unique for 3 years. The same
"maker" can then re-use the same number for something entirely
different.
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