# Barcode scanner not working

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**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 8:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/barcode-scanner-not-working/43314 "2022-06-21T08:02:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/barcode-scanner-not-working/43314/16 "2023-07-02T07:43:12Z")

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They point you to a 3rd party company that does it better called Dynamsoft. Its really expensive and yes all of us have the same problem.

I wrote a wait for condition rule in the action editor to check if it actually wrote something. But now you would have set column values to delete the value each time you scan.

So the action would look like this.

1. Set column values(Clear Value)
2. Set Column value (set barcode value)
3. Wait for condition (Check if barcode value is not empty)

You have to clear the value in the first step because if you use it multiple times it will take the previous scanned data.

Gonna be honest with you Glide doesn’t really respond to the barcode scanner posts anymore. I think if they had their way they would delete it completely from glide applications

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