Detect when input box filled by keyboard and when by barcode scanner.

Well a barcode won't fire any key events so you could do something like:

$('#my_field').on({
    keypress: function() { typed_into = true; },
    change: function() {
        if (typed_into) {
            alert('type');
            typed_into = false; //reset type listener
        } else {
            alert('not type');
        }
    }
});

Depending on when you want to evaluate this, you may want to do this check not on change but on submit, or whatever.

Adapted the super useful Vitall answer above to utilize an IIFE instead of prototyping, in case anyone just seeing this now is into that.

This also uses the 'keypress' event instead of keyup, which allowed me to reliably use KeyboardEvent.key, since KeyboardEvent.which is deprecated now. I found this to work for barcode scanning as well as magnetic-strip card swipes.

In my experience, handling card swipes with keyup caused me to do extra work handling 'Shift' keycodes e.g. a Shift code would be followed by the code representing '/', with the intended character being '?'. Using 'keypress' solved this as well.

(function($) {
    var _timeoutHandler = 0,
        _inputString = '',
        _onKeypress = function(e) {
            if (_timeoutHandler) {
                clearTimeout(_timeoutHandler);
            }
            _inputString += e.key;

            _timeoutHandler = setTimeout(function () {
                if (_inputString.length <= 3) {
                    _inputString = '';
                    return;
                }
                $(e.target).trigger('altdeviceinput', _inputString);
                _inputString = '';

            }, 20);
        };
    $(document).on({
        keypress: _onKeypress
    });
})($);

you can try following example, using jQuery plugin https://plugins.jquery.com/scannerdetection/

Its highly configurable, time based scanner detector. It can be used as solution for prefix/postfix based, time based barcode scanner.

Tutorial for usage and best practices, as well discussed about various Barcode Scanner Models and how to deal with it. http://a.kabachnik.info/jquery-scannerdetection-tutorial.html

$(window).ready(function(){

	//$("#bCode").scannerDetection();

	console.log('all is well');
	
	$(window).scannerDetection();
	$(window).bind('scannerDetectionComplete',function(e,data){
            console.log('complete '+data.string);
            $("#bCode").val(data.string);
        })
        .bind('scannerDetectionError',function(e,data){
            console.log('detection error '+data.string);
        })
        .bind('scannerDetectionReceive',function(e,data){
            console.log('Recieve');
            console.log(data.evt.which);
        })

        //$(window).scannerDetection('success');

<input id='bCode'type='text' value='barcode appears here'/>

I wrote this answer, because my Barcode Scanner Motorola LS1203 generated keypress event, so I can't use Utkanos's solution.

My solution is:

var BarcodeScanerEvents = function() {
     this.initialize.apply(this, arguments);
};

BarcodeScanerEvents.prototype = {
    initialize: function() {
       $(document).on({
          keyup: $.proxy(this._keyup, this)
       });
    },
    _timeoutHandler: 0,
    _inputString: '',
    _keyup: function (e) {
        if (this._timeoutHandler) {
            clearTimeout(this._timeoutHandler);
            this._inputString += String.fromCharCode(e.which);
        } 

        this._timeoutHandler = setTimeout($.proxy(function () {
            if (this._inputString.length <= 3) {
                this._inputString = '';
                return;
            }

            $(document).trigger('onbarcodescaned', this._inputString);

            this._inputString = '';

        }, this), 20);
    }
};