News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps

ScanLife Barcode Reader Updated To Support More Formats

by Bla1ze

on 17 Dec 2009 11:57 AM

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Having just recently downloaded this app a few days ago and testing it out, I was rather disappointed in the uses that were available for it. The odd barcode here and there would work but more were unreadable then readable. In turn, I deleted the app having thought I would never use it enough to actually rason keeping it around on my BlackBerry.

Yesterday, that changed. Having read over at BlackBerryCool that Scanlife was now updated with support for UPC/EAN codes I realized it suddenly just became more useful. Support in Scanlife now has QR, Datamatrix, EZcode and UPC/EAN meaning you can scan everyday products now and have the application produce results. At this time only auto focus devices can make use of the UPC codes, all others will maintain the same support as before.

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Filed Under: News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps; Tags: Barcode, ScanLife, Scanner, video

59 Comments

Posted by SurrealCivic Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Downloaded.. 9700.
Cool little app.. Will be a lot more useful when more barcodes become publicly available.
Interesting thing I noticed when downloading the app from their website (getscanlife.com), they did not have 9700 listed as one of the supported BlackBerry devices; however Tour 9650 was listed.

Posted by Tanker811 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

I'm still learning. I have the ability to scan other BB users bar code. My question does ScanLife allow customers who are looking for a price of a product to be able to scan the products bar code to get that price?

Thanks All

Posted by Tanker811 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

Thanks All

Posted by mgrayo01 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Just downloaded for 9550. I opened the app and it sat on the splash screen for 5 minutes. Doesn't seem to be working.

Posted by pirate03 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

It did the same thing to me on the 9530...

Posted by Big Dawg 23 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

It did the same thing on my 9630 running 5.0. I pulled the battery and it worked great.

Posted by pirate03 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

I also did a battery pull and now it works!

Posted by cwhite5222 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

They don't have the 9700 as a listed device option.

Posted by captain_dl Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Worked the first time after install on my 9530. I like that it scans different types of barcodes, but it does not "scan" them. You have to manually take a picture of them and your camera stays open after you close the program. I'm torn between this and Edocrab.

Posted by TwistedLIE Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

I prefer Edocrab... its an all in one app...no opening and waiting on browser...

Posted by RoninKSB Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Does Edocrab do QR Codes?

Posted by captain_dl Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

It does not. That's what I like about ScanLife over Edocrab. For the time being I will have both programs installed on my berry.

Posted by ShanMan77 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

I have both on my phone too; however, whenever I use Edocrab, the photo loads and then the browser appears and it's as if the phone is choosing to use ScanLife instead. Do this happen to you? If so, how do we correct it? I'm using a Tour 9630 w/ OS 4.7.1.57

Posted by captain_dl Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

I'm on a Storm1 with 5.0.0.328. Edocrab is working just like it did before I installed ScanLife.

Posted by webmastir Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

update

Posted by One_Deep Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

9700 not listed but I downloaded the 9000 and it worked!

Posted by Coffey123 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

In the UTube description it says it supports 9700, but it's not listed so what do we choose?

Posted by webmastir Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

it works 10x better now. very nice job scanlife.

Posted by Sgt_Smoker Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

9700 not on the AT&T list WTF man!

Oh well, guess we need to wait for the next update.

Posted by dylanmail Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

From the article, I thought the app was going to support UPC bar codes but after going to the website with my Storm 9530 and downloading the app, it turns out that the only supported code formats are: EZcode, Datamatrix, and QR Code. The version that installed to my device was 3.01. Maybe they haven't posted the version that is supposed to support UPC bar codes?

Posted by Big Dawg 23 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

My 9630 read a barcode just fine. All I had my desk was a box of paper clips that worked.

Posted by dylanmail Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

UPC is just not listed as a supported code type in the help section of the app. Not sure if I like it compared to Edocrab. This just seems to be a glorified search engine as it decodes the code then does a Google search based on the product's ID code.

Posted by robz456 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Did anyone else notice that under the sprint download page that there is a link for the tour 9650

Posted by X@vier Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

just download the one for the Bold 9000, it works without a problem :)

Posted by friendlyferret Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

i downloaded ScanLife for my 9700 in the bberry app world- its listed there

Posted by friendlyferret Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Storm should read UPC

Version 3.01
Build ID: 1R3.0c.1a.3.1

UPC just isn't listed in the help section yet

Posted by devGOD Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

installed then uninstalled

Posted by valorian Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Why?

Posted by ofutur Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

It doesn't work in the UK

Posted by buecker Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

It still doesn't work on my 9700!!!!!!!

My site got a sticker for the Google Favorite Places. Can't find a program to scan it. The BBM doesn't seem to work with Google Favorite Places either.

Yes, I rebooted. "this scan is not registered or from an unknown source"

Posted by Emtronics Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Why? What does it really do? Tell you what the object is? What?

Posted by buecker Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

First, it usually doesn't read the code. When it does read the code, it says it isn't registered.

It's useless to me.

Posted by Aspyred Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Just installed on the BB 9700, whipped out some books, and yeah, it does work very well.

But, I don't get it, for us laypeople, what's the purpose of this tool? Can anyone give me some practical applications?

Posted by gafly Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Price comparing store v online.

Posted by mookish Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Installed on 9700, tried 10 times to read 2 different barcodes, no dice. The third strike will = DELETE

Posted by cwhite5222 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Try changing the Autofocus setting to "Close-Up" under the camera options. I use edocrab and with autofocus on normal it takes about 8 scans to read a barcode. When I changed it to close-up it usually reads on the first scan.

Good luck

Posted by pcmike Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

Definitely set the camera to close-up... the barcodes are so much clearer when doing this and almost ALWAYS are read.

Thanks for the advice.

Posted by needforspd Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

tmobile 9700 i dl'd the 8900 version and it worked fine.

Posted by netposer Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 890 days ago

Wow, this up sucks. It doesn't recognize any bar codes.

Why can't it scan like BBM 5?

Posted by BeeRad Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

I love how the video has to speed up during the web access portion. haha

Two words...

WebKit Browser

Coming Soon!

-BeeRad

Posted by crnz Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

'cause of the bad camera on the the B9000, this isn't working for me. Every photo is phuzzy Dang.

Posted by psiclne Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

will this do price checks? for example if im at best buy and i scan the item will it check for other stores and list the current prices?

Posted by Tanker811 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

This is what I was wanting to know also!!! Anyone !!!

Posted by elvisgates Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

I can't get the app to recognize barcodes either. Has anyone with a 9630 gotten it to work? Did you have to tinker with camera settings?

Posted by Juniior Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

You have to take a picture...

Posted by DaBear5 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

UPC/EAN only works with phones with autofocus.

Posted by dromero Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

very cool, im downloading it now.

Posted by jdy Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

Too bad there wasn't an OTA download for v3.1.1.

Posted by jflexe99 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

What version are they using? 3.1.1? Guessing its not OTA? Like stated by jdy...

Posted by twester65 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

No barcode I scan can be decoded. I don't get the point of this app.

Posted by jflexe99 Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 889 days ago

Did you download the OTA version? thats 3.0.1 We need 3.1.1 to get UPC codes and all....

I downloaded from their website to my computer...how do I get the app onto my blackberry??? Or where exactly can I find 3.1.1???? Thanks!

Posted by qrescue Friday, Dec 18, 2009 889 days ago

Go to bb app world. Ver 3.1.1 is there. The ver for 9700 is there too

Posted by jflexe99 Friday, Dec 18, 2009 889 days ago

thank you sir

Posted by jflexe99 Friday, Dec 18, 2009 889 days ago

So I downloaded it from appworld... Says 3.1.1. But it comes up as 3.3.0.1. Wtf??? I had 3.0.1 before installing, but I deleted 3.0.1

Posted by stevel48 Friday, Dec 18, 2009 889 days ago

app clicks over to the camera, snap the photo and nothing happens. it stays in the camera mode and asks you to save the pic.

Posted by tgreathead Friday, Dec 18, 2009 889 days ago

At first it just snapped a pic but didn't go anywhere. I closed, reopened and now it works fine. I find better results when I move the phone back and zoom in so it has more room to focus. Only gripe is after closing the app the camera stays open, kinda annoying to close two apps.

Posted by wobly Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 887 days ago

I downloaded it from AppWorld. It states version 3.1.1 on AppWorld, but after downloading it, it is 3.0.1.

The ScanLife site is down now.

Posted by oneL8chic Monday, Dec 28, 2009 879 days ago

whats the purpose of this application?

Posted by bambino640 Friday, Dec 17, 2010 525 days ago

you need to put on auto focus and turn off flash for the scanner to work