How to obtain weight reading from PS311 USB postal scale

Hi,
I just purchased a PS311 USB postal scale According to the minimal documentation that came with it, it says "...Connect the flat plug of the cable to an available USB port. Windows/Mac will automatically recognize the scale and install the appropriate driver for weight display only. It then goes on to say that in order to calculate and print postage, I can set up an account with stamps.com, etc., where software can be downloaded to interface with the scale, so apparently it's possible to access the numeric data from the scale over the USB connection.
At this point, I don't plan to use the scale for postage purposes, but I'd like to be able to sample the current weight text to enter into documents, database fields, etc. I'm a software engineer, so I'm not afraid of coding, but I don't really know where to start. I expected this to work like a barcode scanner, where the values come into the system as if they were typed from a keyboard. Has anyone had any success interfacing with a device like this?
Thanks,
Ken

Hi Templeton,
Thanks for the information. I was kind of afraid of that. Apparently, it doesn't seem to work automatically for Windows, either, as I finally tracked down the manufacturer's website. http://www.elane.net/index.php?go=USB_pcsoftware has a list of Windows DLLs for interfacing with their scales, and based on the the dates listed for their Windows DLL (Revision 1.0 is April 9, 2010, and Revision 1.1 is April 12, 2010), interface software for these scales hasn't been around too long. I'll see if anyone else has a workable solution over the next few days, and after that, I might try posting this in the tech forum.
Thanks again,
Ken

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