What is a keyboard wedge?
A Bar Code Keyboard Wedge Decoder is a microcomputer which decodes the signals generated by a Bar Code Scanner (while reading a label), and converts the analyzed bar and space patterns into the original data. The Bar Code Decoder then converts the recovered data into the same codes that the Keyboard generates (aka: keyboard codes), in order to “fool” the PC into believing that the scanned data was typed on the keyboard. The Bar Code Keyboard Wedge also includes the required electronics to combine both the Keyboard and Decoder codes (and cables), for sending data to the PC Keyboard buffer (via the Keyboard connector on the PC – No Special Software Required). In order to install the Keyboard Wedge, the user disconnects the Keyboard from the PC, and simply connects the Keyboard Wedge between the Keyboard and the PC (hence the term “wedge”). Thereafter, any data, scanned or typed, appears to the PC as if it had been typed on the Keyboard. Bar Code Keyboard Wedges are operating system indep
