Hi
Thanks for the info, although the Read Iris guy doesn't really
understand twain from what he's saying. According to the twain driver
specification, the driver *must* provide a way to suppress the
interface. Further, image capture can bypass the interface of my
scanner. And, also, Read Iris suppresses the interface on the PC.
Those're the kind of people I just want to shake and tell them
actually look at the software and docs before shooting off their
mouths. If a simple app like Image capture can bypass the interface,
it's obviously possible. Duh. Can image capture bypass your scanner's
interface? If it can then its obviously possible to do this. I was
able to use the site to buy it on OS X but it was a drag, as you
said--main problem was that it didn't provide any confirmation when
my order had been processed, except via email.
With regard to the scanner's interface, though, I did come up with a
little trick to help deal with it--this could be driver-specific, so
it might not work on yours. Just before scanning, have the mouse stop
tracking the VO cursor. Now, bring up the driver and put the VO
cursor on the scan button. Route the mouse there with VO-keys+cmd+f5.
On my scanner, the driver window always pops up in the same place so
if I leave the mouse there a simulated click will scan another page
without having to find the button again.
On Jan 14, 2006, at 4:25 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Hey, two things for you. First on Read Iris, I had a chat with them
regarding the issue of the scanner driver interface coming up, they
said that is a function of the scanner manufacturer's software and
there's nothing that can be done, but the scanner does have to be
twain complient. I spoke to Epson and they informed me that this is
how all the scanners behave. I then spoke to HP and was told that
only scanners like the 5590 and higher-end stuff behaves by not
bringing up an interface and that scanner is $299. Not sure I want
to spend $299 on a scanner at this point so guess I'll have to live
with it. Also the Iris site when you order the pkg is a real drag
to work with and I was forced to use ie on the windows platform.
Hey they US rep agreed the site sucked at least. I did get it for
$59 instead of $129 so I do not know if this was some special or
anyone who tries it gets the special deal, but that deal came to me
in an e-mail.
