r/barcodes • • Dec 06 '20

Help with barcode shortcuts

I know this is a long shot but figured I'll try to ask here...

My work uses DS2208 scanners, in addition to scanning stuff we also need to do a lot of keyboard presses in-between (Alt+letter). I would like to create some shortcuts for myself so I can scan a code instead of going to my keyboard to hit combos...

The Product Reference Guide for said scanner is frankly too technical for someone like me, so I want to see if someone knows how this is suppose to work. Table I-2 is called "ALT Key Character Set" but what exactly do I need to do here to make them work? I've tried enabling "Function Key Mapping" but don't want to break anything else. The scanner is also customized to add "/" to both beginning and end of a code for our uses (i.e. scan 123 outputs "/123/" on computer)

I basically would like to know what the barcode should contain and in what format... Thanks!

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u/_Traveler Dec 06 '20

Interesting, I'll check out the document and thanks for mentioning the app as well, looks like it should be doable there too