If this isn't a high volume/cost conscious design; HP/Agilent has a nice Bar decoder chip that will spit out serial data. HBCR-1612 /family. I used one of these in my senior design project with a surplus wand from alltronics or bgmicro. It was used to count and score playing cards on an automated card shuffling deck. Read speed was pretty decent. Mechanics of the shuffler were problematic. I never did get the project far enough along to design out the decoder chip -so no decode software here --if I could even find it now :')... www.semiconductor.agilent.com -Dal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Gallant" Looking for a hi resolution bar code wand or scanner, (possibly a CCD) for reading thermal labels as well as support circuit, plus code concept (possibly KBD scan codes), in order to interface to a pic. Thanks, {slewrate} -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu