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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
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Subject: Re: Scanner tools (drivers)?
Message-ID: <1991May20.060332.15661@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 20 May 91 06:03:32 GMT
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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.