>interested So am I ;-). The sensor(s) are bog plain bw ccd cameras, any camera will do if it transfers the image in realtime to a pc. I used one attached to a video digitizer card. The image processing is another dish. Here is a good book on it: Algorythms for Image Processing and Computer Vision, J.R.Parker, Wiley, 1997 ISBN 0-471-14056-2 (paperback, with CDROM) Attached code is in C. The book has nothing to do with barcodes but it will introduce some of the techniques used. The math gets very complex after a while and you will have to leave the trail and experiment... good luck, Peter -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body