iSight camera not grabbing barcodes

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IainF
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iSight camera not grabbing barcodes

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Hi
I like Bookpedia/CDpedia but recently my iSight camera is just about useless for inputting books/CDs. I know that this has been an issue in the past.
I use to have little trouble with the iSight but now my arm is getting tired holding books at different angles, tipping the screen to get a different state of illumination of the book etc etc etc.

I'm using Bookpedia 4.6.1 on a MacBookPro 2007 vintage, running 10.6.4 with the following iSight camera
Built-in iSight:

Product ID: 0x8502
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version: 1.45
Serial Number: E0635922AE578FBC (03.01)
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Location ID: 0xfd400000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500

Any thoughts?

BTW the text on the books is reversed (I understand that the iSight is supposed to work this way). I assume that the pedias are supposed to work with a reversed image...

Cheers

Iain
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