Hello. I'm currently operating a Honeywell MK9520 Barcode Scanner that works as a keyboard emulator, connected as a USB device. Ubuntu shows it as a /dev/input/by-id/usb-Honeywell_Scanning_and_Mobility_Honeywell_Scanning_and_Mobility_Scanner-event-kbd The Problem is that everything that is scanned just gets written (in plain text) do stdin. I'm currently developing a Java Application where that behavior is unacceptable (because of the lack of an input field). A solution, which i would prefer, would be if all text (already translated from events to plain text) coming from the reader would get redirected into a named pipe or something similar. Is there any way to achieve this? The second solution which I don't prefer at all would be to open the /dev/input/... scanner device within Java, read the byte stream and parse the key down / key up events myself. Target Platform is Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. I'd highly appreciate it, if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance, Klaus