19 Apr
2012
19 Apr
'12
4:58 p.m.
> I've got at least one scanner which speaks
SCSI...[...]
Also, for a machien to be useful with a scanner, I
would have thought
it should have a high resolution graphics display.
I'd say that's overstating the case. It helps, certainly, but it is by
no means necessary. Indeed, some scanners (including mine) can be set
to do a 1bpp scan, when speed of scanning is more important than
detailed accuracy, and/or you're going to be treating it in a 1bpp way
(such as sending it by fax) anyway, or some such. Even if they're of
no use for your end purpose, 1bpp scans can be very useful to allow you
to adjust the rectangle of the scanner bed you want to scan (at higher
fidelity) and save.
Of course the problem is that there are not likely to
be any drivers
for a scanner on any of these machines. I realsie the scanenr
commands are documented (at least for some scanners), but writign the
drivers is not something I want to undertake....
Depending on what you mean by "driver", this may or may not be an
issue. I use SANE, which I think demands nothing from the OS but the
ability to send SCSI CDBs to the device and get responses (including
data) back. (Of course, adding that capability to an existing OS can
be a nontrivial effort....)
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