softwedge is a small Linux utility which forwards data from a serial port (such as from a tty, or a barcode scanner) and re-issues the data as X11 key press events.

softwedge was designed to allow ordinary applications to accept data from a Bluetooth barcode scanner (for testing, the author used a Metrologic FocusBT, though any *decoded* serial or Bluetooth barcode scanner should work). Un-decoded scanners won't work - softwedge expects input near the US-ASCII character-set, though not all control codes work at this time.

Download & Repository

The softwedge source can be had via. git at http://repo.or.cz/w/softwedge.git.

Version 0.1 is available to download. It is quite stable in day-to-day use. See the included README file for instructions. See all available downloads.