Bar-code assignment to a Jpg?

[Norbert Bissinger]

Is it posible to assign an Alpha-numeric bar-code to a jpg.?

Or that the bar-code changes the jpg #.

What I want to do is: take a picture, scan a preprinted bar-code, swipe the card through a slot reader.

The bar-code should some how be relating to the letter string of the plasic card.

Final purpose is: On a web site the customer types in the string and the picture shows up.

Any hints?

Norbert

[LiveOak]

How about explaining once again? How are the picture, the barcode, the plastic card, and the code the customer types in related? It may all be perfectly clear to you, but it was all a little too quick for me. I'm going to need a few more hints to attempt an answer.

-bd

[cjaeger]

that's easy - since you are talking web publishing, you can use perl cgi to to the job.

There are a variety of perl modules at CPAN that create a barcode image from a string. To invoke a cgi based on those perl modules with the barcode string in FMP field "bctext" would be like this:

<img src="barcode.cgi?[FMP-Field: bctext]">

[cjaeger]

oops, by reading the post again, i gather that you do not want to show the barcode, but a picture related to the card ID.

simply set up a relation between your g_input_id (global field to input ID num) and an ID field in your pictures database holding the card ID. Then it even woks with instant web publishing ....

[Norbert Bissinger]

Christian,

Danke shoen. I will look into this.

bd.

I will explain it with other words.

1) I have preprinted plastic bar-code cards with letter strings.

2) I take a picture: swipe the preprinted card through a slot reader.

3) the letter string should now be relating to the jpg, or change the jpg #, or

be associated to the jpg.

4) I hand the card to the customer.

5) Customer looks up a web site which has a form with a field in to which

the customer types in the Letters and the picture shows up.

[Norbert Bissinger]

I made a Mock Up Web Site in a hurry to show what I want to accomplish.

Please look it up. Any more ideas?

www.quickflicks.0catch.com

Thank you.

[Norbert Bissinger]

Will post the same at the Bar-Code forum to see which reader to use..

Thanks every one for the help.

[cjaeger]

1) I have preprinted plastic bar-code cards with letter strings.

2) I take a picture: swipe the preprinted card through a slot reader.

3) the letter string should now be relating to the jpg, or change the jpg #, or

be associated to the jpg.

4) I hand the card to the customer.

5) Customer looks up a web site which has a form with a field in to which

the customer types in the Letters and the picture shows up.

You are basically talking 2 systems here:

1 - a system wich scans a picture, puts the picture in a database and lets you associtate the pict to a given ID. Wheter the ID is hand-typed or input by barcode reader, does not make a diff here. That's just a matter of invoking the barcode reader software with a button in your database. Most barcode readers have a keyboard-emulation mode, i.e. they transmit the scanned data as if it was typed in.

2 - a web based database, which will allow to look up the picture ID according to data put into a web form. The database then shows the corresponding picture.

You could get there by modifying the picture database example im your FileMaker 6 Folder, adding some fields like name, company etc, and then put it on the web similar to the product catalog web example. When you are tired of typing in the card codes manually, go by a card reader, making sure it has keyboard emulation mode.

I had a look at your web page and on the pictures. Typing in the code manually only adds up 20 seconds to the process, which seems marginal compared to the time it takes to edit the pictures ...

are you sure you can generate money with this setup? I have met a ski photographer who takes pictures during the day, hands out a business card to the people on the photo with a preprinted number on it, In the evening they can go to the photographers website & look up the picture by this number , then order a highres printout over the web.

[Norbert Bissinger]

Absolutely sure that I can make money whit this setup. Spoke with three big Ad Agencies. They can sell this to

car makers, Sports teams like the Yankees and many others.

There will be no time to type any thing. Pictures have to be taken at a pace of at least 4 per minute.

Supose I am at a Car Expo and BMW uses my services. They would have a car and a line of customers

waiting to be photographed for free with this car. This means more than 2000 pictures a day.

Work flow goes like this.

1) Snap the picture

2) Swipe the preprinted card which must reference this picture to the letterstring of the bar-code.

3) Hand the card to the customer.

At home the customer looks up BMW's site and clicks on a button to see the picture. He/she must fill out a form

with data relevant to BMW, then clicks a button (proceed) next page asks for the letterstring to be typed into

a form. Be clicking (show my picture) the picture shows up.

The web part is not a problem: The referencing of the bar-code to the jpg is.

Lets asume the picture taken has a number like: jpg 0456 and the pre printed card has the string EG7JK DHKMR.

How do I reference, associate or change this jpg # to the one of the bar-code.

I am aware of Wedge slot readers and will order one to see how it works. Don't have FM but will buy it if

this is the way to go.

I ordered some sequencial numbered plastic cards with graphics on both sides just like the real thing in.

Of course I could write this number by hand, but this is no solution.