A small class for decoding the values returned when scanning a barcode with the cheaply available cuecat scanner.

Installation

gem install cuecat

Usage

puts CueCat.valid?(".C3nZC3nZC3n2CNjXCNz0DxnY.cGen.ENr7CNT3Chz3ENj1CG.")
=> true

puts CueCat.ean?(".C3nZC3nZC3n2CNjXCNz0DxnY.cGen.ENr7CNT3Chz3ENj1CG.")
=> true

code = CueCat.new(".C3nZC3nZC3n2CNjXCNz0DxnY.cGen.ENr7CNT3Chz3ENj1CG.")
puts code.code_type

=> "IBN"
puts code.id

=> "000000005112157601"
puts code.value
=> "978184354916"

Further Reader

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuecat

• www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/CueCat

Contributing

Source code is publicly available @ github.com/yob/cuecat/tree/master. Patches welcome, preferably via a git repo I can pull from.