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?