Scanning HIBC Barcodes

[Milfin]

I have a macbook pro and using parallels.

I'm having trouble with both OS reading (scanning) barcodes.
Now if I scan the same barcode on a windows system it will read the barcode correctly..

The barcodes are just regular HIBC format. What I'm seeing is that it does not reads some characters and changes + to *

Can anyone help?

 

[alphaod]

I'm confused how you're scanning barcodes with your computer?

 

[arkitect]

I'm confused how you're scanning barcodes with your computer?

There are plenty of USB scanners available…
Like these.

 

[Milfin]

sorry, using a usb scanner to scan barcodes.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

I don't know if it will make a difference, but can you tell parallels (you can with Fusion) to directly attatch itself to the usb barcode device instead of accepting keyboard input from OS X?

 

[Vanarak19]

if you really want to get that scanner working 100%, I say skip parallels, install XP, and use bootcamp.

Stuff like that, from what Ive read, always has issues in a VM.

Thats not to say you cant get it to work eventually the way you intend, or at all for that matter. My way is just easier