How To Make Barcodes

How to Make Barcodes

If you’re in a thing like you’ll probably have large collection of something whether be a CDs or DVDs or books or coins or sport’s cards, and I’m going to show you a three way to keep track or keep inventory of those items, and I’ll show you a way to generate barcodes for them if they don’t already have them and I’m going to show you a way to scan those barcodes into a database using nothing more than your webcam, so this is an easier way to keep track and keep an inventory of your things.

That one is not mine. What you’ll need to do to get started is open up a web browser and go to www.beepmystuff.com and this is a free online application that allows you to keep track of your stuff by scanning in their barcode using your webcam, so sign up for a free account if you don’t already have one and up from the menu just click on the beep option and this is going to launch a flash base webcam application that you can then used to scanning your barcodes just hold your barcode in front of it until it recognizes it.

Now it recommends using a USB webcam as supposed to one built-in to your laptop because you can’t manually focus the one built-in through your laptop and you may need to do that since your holding the barcode so close. It also recommends using plenty of white and to avoid any glares, so I just went to the library option to view everything that’s in my library.

Now, if you don’t have a barcode for your item you can go to barcodeinc.com, go to services tab and free barcode generator then click on the Make a UPC barcode option and enter in any random 12 digits and click Make Barcode and this will generate a barcode from those 12 digits that you entered.

And now what I just did was I hit the print screen button on the keyboard and I’m opening up Microsoft Paint and I’m pasting it in to Microsoft Paint. Now I’m just going to select the barcode and clap it and then print it out. You can also print it from the browser but I’m doing this because I also like to save it and keep track of it on my computer that way as well.

And then using the version that you printed out you can go back to Beepmystuff.com and scan it in. Now, as you can see from the items that I just scanned then the one that I generated already represents a product that exists, so I can go to my library select it and click on Edit and then change the information to match the item that I want to store in my library, so I can change the title add an image and things like that.

Now, another thing that you could do to organize your stuff is just go to the barcode generator and print barcode out for all of your items and then just cut the mouth and paste them to index card with titles or to a single piece of paper. So, these are both cool ways of keeping track of your stuff.

Alright, that’s it for this tutorial for more of that at Tinkernut.com.


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