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On 14/12/12 15:22, Adrian Midgley wrote: > I'd like, in OpenOffice or similar, to have the word processor send > each paragraph to something which returns a 2D barcode - QR or > datamatrix or whatever - containing the text of that paragraph. > > > It is an effort to solve a simple problem - reading barcodes off > scanned documents - rather than an insuperable problem - persuading > hospitals etc to stop sending printed letters on paper in favour of > sending the file that was printed - or a merely hard problem - OCR > from printed text. > > > Software? > > Macros that send per paragraph to software outside? > > Plugins for the word processors? > > Although I've not used myself I know that Scribus the DTP application has a barcode generator. http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Barcode_Generator It has a good few formats so it might be worth investigating. There are quite a few other dedicated barcode generators available such as kbarcode. Search with something like Synaptic and give them a try. Hope you find something that can do the job for you. Keith -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All e-mails including their file attachments are scanned for viruses and spam using Symantec's and ClamAV's scan engines. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq