1. An apparatus for electro-optically reading, by image capture, a selected target from a picklist having a plurality of targets over a range of working distances, the apparatus comprising: a housing; an imaging assembly supported by the housing, for capturing an image of the picklist in the range over an imaging field of view; a memory for storing coordinates of a trajectory of an aiming light pattern in the imaging field of view over the range; and a controller operatively connected to the memory, for processing the captured image along the trajectory to find and identify a target, for determining whether the target covers the trajectory, and for determining that the target is the selected target when the target at least partially covers the trajectory.