29 Jul
2000
29 Jul
'00
12:17 p.m.
On Jul 29, 8:05, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
Finally, do *any* scanners have documented interfaces?
i.e. say I find
myself
a nice SCSI-connected high-speed high-resolution
scanner. Am I going to
be
reduced to point-and-drool with Windows 98, or can I
actually hook the
scanner up to a real computer? We're talking about many tens or hundreds
of gigabytes of data here, so I'm willing to invest some effort to
automate
the acquire/compress/archive process.
Yes, some HP scanners, U-Max, Mustek, Plustek, and a few others are
documented. You should probably look at the SANE project (Scanner Access
Now Easy) which runs on various flavours of Unix (and there was a WinSane
project under way last time I looked, but you asked about real operating
systems so I won't mention it :-)).
http://www.mostang.com/sane/ is the homepage, but it doesn't seem to want
to talk to me just now, so you might try ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/ or
http://linux.com/howto/Hardware-HOWTO-22.html
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York