29 Jul
2000
29 Jul
'00
2:59 a.m.
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.
TWAIN.
-dq
29 Jul
29 Jul
5:38 a.m.
The interface on most of the small, cheap scanners are pretty simple, but
I've never seen even a hint at how the thing interacts with the innards of
the scanner.
There are, of course, those scanners used for scanning photo negatives into
photo-CD's. It might require judicious surgery on your microfiche, too, but
those are getting popular enough that they might actually be affordable.
I had a scanner before Windows, and, frankly, it was still point-and-drool,
since the software provided with the scanner did that on its own.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: Scanning microfiche?
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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? We're talking about many tens or of gigabytes
of data here, so I'm willing to invest some effort to
automate
the acquire/compress/archive process.
TWAIN.
-dq
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