Scanning microfiche? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Jul 2000

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 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?  
 Some companies do allow the information out or people reverse engineer it.
I have used http://www.mostang.com/sane/ with my scanner under Linux.
Not a huge number are supported.  I have also seen a shareware one 
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html for the film scanners but never
used it.

If you find a good solution to OCR let me know, I have looked at it
a few times and it always looks like too much work to clean up after it.
300 DPI true resolution is what I considered the minimum for an
acceptable looking scan.

David Gesswein