kevin@hiatus.zko.dec.com (Kevin D. Baranski-Walker) (05/18/91)
-- Has anyone run across a handler (for lack of a better term) for any of the widely available scanners? (E.g., HP Scanjet, Abaton, Epson, ...) It seems a waste to be forced to use a PC [or Mac, or whatever] just to scan. BTW: I'm refering to SCSI based scanners. --------------------------------- Kevin D. Baranski-Walker -> Internet: kevin@hiatus.zko.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation -> Airborne: Cherokee N7928C Nashua, New Hampshire -> FAX: (603)881-0120 ---------------------------------
olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (05/20/91)
In <1991May17.174638@hiatus.zko.dec.com> kevin@hiatus.zko.dec.com (Kevin D. Baranski-Walker) writes: | -- | Has anyone run across a handler (for lack of a better term) for any of the | widely available scanners? (E.g., HP Scanjet, Abaton, Epson, ...) It seems | a waste to be forced to use a PC [or Mac, or whatever] just to scan. | The scanner program in 3.3 in eoe2.sw.moregltools has support for the Ricoh FS1 color scanner (up to 400dpi) and the IS11 256 grayscale scanner. I think there may be a new scanner program in 4.0, but I'm not sure which scanners it will support. Writing a *simple* scanner progam (i.e., no fancy user interface) for most scsi scanners using the devscsi driver shouldn't take more than a few hours to a few days, depending on your familiarity with SCSI, scanners, and of course just how well the particular scanner adheres to the SCSI standards, given the documentation for the scanner. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.