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[Stefan Schwarzburg <stefan.schwarzburg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

at the moment I am looking into mobile apps for the iPhone that let
scientists scan the barcode or the ISBN of a book and enter the
corresponding citation into zotero [1] (for the institute where my wife
works).

And I remembered that you wanted to support 1D barcodes as well with
Qreator. However, the big question is, what do you do after you have
scanned such a code. For literature citations there are many online tools
like Zotero or Mendeley, so the question would be: which tool / service to
use?
>From the Qreator perspective this probably means that we either have to use
plugins, or a selection of possible services on each scan, or that we do
not support 1D barcodes at all (apart from "copy content").

I know that you want to keep qreator as simple as possible... but I would
suggest that we at least keep in mind that questions like this will appear
in the future and that we should have a good answer to them.

Cheers,
Stefan


[1] http://www.zotero.org/