barcode reader integration in web application

We have a customer in need for a new on-line library managing
application. Taking all things into consideration, web application
seems the way to go. However, they also use bar code readers for
issuing and returning books. This bar code reader is connected to a
user machine and we need to access it from our server

How to read those bar codes into web application? Any ideas, how to do
it? Java applet, flash, ActiveX or something different?

Scanners are Datalogic Forumula 732e and Metrologic Scanpal. Web
application will be PHP running on Apache web server

Thanks and Regards
Renjith Raj

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