The Natural History Museum in London is currently digitizing its collection, including insect slides with barcodes. BardecodeFiler is used to read the barcode from a photo of the slide and rename the photo to the code for the specimen.
Here’s a link to video that explains the whole process:
https://www.wired.co.uk/video/how-the-natural-history-museum-is-scanning-80-million-dead-creatures
Here’s another link to an article that explains how the process of digitising the insect collection:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408422/
