SVP Barcode Collector

Valery Svetlitsky

About this app

Barcode Collector v 3

*1) What is "BCC"?*

"Barcode Collector" ("BCC") is barcode scanner designed to serve as Data Terminal in wide range of works where hardware laser scanner facilities usually engaged. It maintains it's own mobile database to store collections of scanned data: barcode, quantity and optional name and images attached. Collections ('tasks') could subsequently be shared to arbitrary destination in the form of XLS,CSV,JSON or XML files.
BCC is a handy tool, ready for practical usage. It can help, for example, in different kind inventory tasks, for the creation of barcoded items lists, accounting goods in stock etc. It supports all the mainstream commodity barcode types:
EAN13, EAN8, CODE25, CODE39, CODE93, CODE128, PDF417 and QR.

*2) Tasks.*

All the works in this application are carried out in terms of "tasks" as an object of data storing and exchange.


*3) Work*

When user press the button this start new scanning for current task. When barcode recognized - we have an option to accept or reject the result. Each acceptance adds new item in task's barcode list or increments quantity if the item is already present in task. When scanner reads a code, it looks up for this code in list of the current task and in main directory. Each variant of lookup result produce different sound signal, that gives operator the reason to accept result depending on particular situation. For example, if we have comprehensive main directory and we know, that extra barcodes shouldn't happen - signal of unknown barcode should be a warning to double check if recognition is correct. In other cases , when you create the list of unknown items, you can right away add the name when new barcode arrived.
So the result of task - list of scanned goods is the main product of this application. And there is one more useful option: we can add images to the list. For this purpose there is embedded photography module that allows easy to attach one or more image to each item. If that ordinary photography does not meet your special needs - you can set an option to use some dedicated app that is default photography program in your device.

*4) O.C.R.*

Yet another tedious part of work, when compiling comprehensive list of goods - is naming. This app can automate this by using O.C.R. facility from Google. For this you can use correspondent switch (O.C.R) in photo-capturing screen, which turns on special OCR regime for photography. In current version this feature works just for languages based on Latin script.

*5) Exporting results *

To use collected data in practice we can export it to different accounting or ERP systems.
Export files include images optionally. You can change this in settings

*6) Input / output format.*

Data are exported in a form of XLS, XML, CVS or JSON file with a simple structure. This format is exactly the same for import too. After initial acquaintance, when passing to real practical work - it's a good idea - to start with a filling of main catalog from locally engaged accounting system (not neccessary but could be helpful depending on user needs). Main catalog import requires barcode and item name - all other fields are optional.

*7) Field mapping.*

When exporting or importing data user could customise field names to accomodate to other data systems. This is done by field mapping schemes (managed in preferences), and provides one more convenience option for cooperation with different third party industrial applications like ERP etc.
One prominent use case for this is Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP. Preferences contain preset tunings for Odoo, that helps to acomplish some tedious routine jobs in couple of simple steps. There is also native Odoo application "Barcode terminal" in Odoo app market that helps automatically import "Barcode Collector" data and generate primary documents from obtained items collection.
Odoo is a registered trademark of Odoo S.A.

What’s new

Barcode decoder from Google is used as a default option.
Added Google O.C.R. facility for quick and accurate item names filling.
Modern Camera2 library now is used by default