How to Scan Books Using Book Crawler in 5 Easy Steps

Launch the Book Crawler App on your iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, iPad Mini).

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Select the “books” button to begin adding new books to the collection.

Hold your iOS device over the ISBN barcode of the book you wish to scan. Use your iOS device’s camera just like a barcode scanner. A green box will appear and scan the book.

Select the ISBN function to automatically add the book’s information. Be sure you have internet access for this step.

All of the book’s available information will be automatically entered into the Book Crawler database. Using the “Edit” button, the book’s information can be easily updated manually.

Read Me:

The purpose of this "read me" file is to define how this OPAC training aid will be used. This 5 step guide to scanning books into Book Crawler was developed to show student library aides at Al Dhaher how to assist the librarian with the task. The library is currently attempting to inventory and catalog over 1,000 texts in order to establish a viable lending library. Currently there is no OPAC software available and no equipment for scanning books and materials. It is hoped that this inexpensive iOS software will allow the librarian (with the help from a few volunteer students) to create a database for the libraries current collection. Book Crawler's data can be exported into a more robust OPAC application once the school system provides it. In the meantime, Book Crawler will make it much easier to quickly inventory the materials.