Yes. On both the initial walmart and kmart websites. Both where tied into filemaker databases(scary) You will need to have the database. You will then need a programer to tie the DB to the shooting software. Capture one should do this I have no clue if Lightroom can. extensis portfolio and Cumulus can both probably act as a interim step where the barcode scanner is used to fill in a field in Capture one and then when saved to a watch folder, Portfolio or Cumulus then moves the files. the idea of using a flatbed is nuts once you figure out the cost to time of a barcode scanner and using the items own data. A workable good enough for this type of thing barcode scanner is $100 or less per station.
On 11:51, Fri, Jan 9, 2015 Telesca Photography <telephotonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings!
I was wondering if anyone out there is doing the kind of volume shooting
where they might need or have used a bar-code scanner to input data
directly into the EXIF data? Or even used a scanner hooked up to a
laptop/computer tethered to a camera so that the bar code data could be
entered while the shot was relatively fresh in the system?
By "fresh in the system", I mean the set-up was directly in front of the
photographer, the image was on the laptop/computer, and the box or tag
with the barcode was with the photographer - as opposed to having it
done at a later time and having to look up the image in a library.
Bar codes are scanned as soon as the products come into the warehouse -
to see if they go to one on-line catalog or the other. If the product
info pops up on the screen, it means the product can go onto the website
inventory right away. If not - it means it's gotta be shot - unless
we've already done it previously and have no way to look it all up.
One source - Foologray in Germany - has a wireless scanner which
transmits directly to the camera via a bluetooth dongle -
http://www.foolography.com/barcodes/. But I've heard of other scanners
used to scan into the image file in Lightroom. The problem is - the
software used to load the images we shoot into the web catalogs doesn't
allow for searching by bar-code data that's contained in the EXIF data.
I recommend that they have a read-only folder of all our images that can
be searched by this barcode data - but that hasn't been set up yet, and
not sure that it will be.
Just thought I'd put this out there and see if anyone is has used bar
code scanners to keep track of this data.
Chris Telesca
