Does anypne know of a piece of software that can take RS-232 input from a serial port and turn it into emulated keyboard presses?

Basically I've acquired a barcode scanner that connects through a serial port. It outputs as RS-232 which isn't of much use outside specially written applications and a terminal. The only computer I have that still has a native serial port is my Ubuntu server. Therefore I'd rather a program that is written for Linux as opposed to a Windows porgram. If nothing can be found then I can try a Windows application in WINE.

Any ideas?

would be very interesting to actually program something like this... and I'd love to do it if I had a bar-code scanner of any kind.

but I don't :<
and I don't even run linux :O (thinks about trying linux again)

sorry this isn't of help....

I've done a bit more digging. There's a Python library already written for emulating keypresses. As for the scanner it ouputs in ASCII and not Hex meaning there's no conversion to do. In theory it should be pretty simple to write a program to do what's needed. But alas, I don't know Python. Anyone here that does?