Mobile browser barcode reader?

[gillbee]

I placed this query on another board but no ones has been able to help so far. Anyone any idea if this exists or nor?


Is there any way of reading a barcode from your mobile browser? I'm sure I'm missing something here. Every time I find a barcode while browsing on my phone I then have to open the same web page on a desktop / laptop so I can snap it with the barcode reader on my phone.

I'm probably just being stupid but can I get my phone browser to read the barcode? Do any browsers offer this as a plugin?

Thanks for any help

 

[KlaymenDK]

I don't know if it's possible to obtain the image source location in the browser?

The reason I'm asking is, a lot of these QR codes (for example this one from some random barcode app off of Androlib:

When you look at the image source, it's really a generated image:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=135x135&chl=market://search?q=pname:com.mobiletag
I'm guessing this is the case for many (but certainly not all) QR codes you find around the 'net.

 

[gillbee]

Cheers for the info. Possibly not the easiest thing to develop but you can copy the barcode image from a web site and paste it into another app (Word doc for example) so hopefully it's one for the future.