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Has anyone hacked the :Cue C.A.T. for use as a cheap text reader (could be useful for entering text from business cards or documents)?

There's a lot out there on the net about hacking CueCat, but most of it centers around:

1. removing the unique serial number to make your use of CueCat anonymous

2. converting CueCat to a plain-text barcode scanner for personal use

3. using barcodes to get data from places like Amazon to automatically catalog book or music collections

I have not seen anything about text scanning.

I suggest you start with your favorite search engine or start at http://www.slashdot.com where there are articles about it.


ObLegal: By discussing this subject, I am not necessarily advocating any of it.

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I think the cue cat is just a bar-code scanner. That's not really something capable of actual optical scanning or OCR.

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i just got back from vacation and was reading some magazines on the plane that used the Cue Cat barcode scanners. From what i gather the barcode just links you to the website of the product. i wonder if it would be possible to gut the CueCat and fit it into a larger (battery) type module so that i could scan these ads and automatically list the websites in my memopad? (i currently have a catagory in my memopad called (Web-Check) where i write in websites i see on TV or in magazines, etc. and whenever i have some spare time i surf these sites and either delete (if they're not worth re-visiting) or change to a different catagory in my memopad. With a makeshift CueCat module i could scan these ads and have the site address write directly to my visor!

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i just got back from vacation

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i wonder if it would be possible to gut the CueCat and fit it into a larger (battery) type module so that i could scan these ads and automatically list the websites in my memopad?

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i wonder if it would be possible to gut the CueCat and fit it into a larger (battery) type module ...

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Not to mention the circuit boards inside the cuecat are shaped like it is. Unless the barcoding module you're imagining stuck out the top of the Visor quite a ways, there'd be no way to make it fit! Say...

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It might be possible to create a program that would get the code inputs (they look like .C3nZC3nZC3nZCxf2C3P2C3nX.fHmc.C3f2Cxj2DxfWDNn6.) and once the visor synchs put links to the correct site in an HTML document.

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