2008/9/3 <rozelak at volny.cz>: > I really appologise for multiple sending, I forgot to fill subject :-(. > Plese ignore my previous post ... > > On Tuesday 18 of March 2008, Johannes Meixner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mar 14 16:33 rozelak at volny.cz wrote (shortened): >> > I would like to ask, how network scanners are supported. >> >> ... >> >> > I am interested, as we have Canon iR2200 copy/printer/scanner >> > (huge) machine in my work, and I would like to know if it >> > can be accessed from linux (or SANE in general). >> >> I think that the question is whether a SANE driver >> (i.e. a SANE backend) is really needed to use it with Linux >> or whether one can use this device also stand-alone. >> >> Normally one can scan directly on a big and fat network >> printer scanner copier and specify scan resolution >> and image file format (e.g. tiff, PDF, ...) and all the >> other scanning options directly at the device and in >> particular one can specify an e-mail address to which >> the device will send the scanned image file so that one >> will receive the scanned image as a mail attachment >> according to what was specified as image file format. >> >> This way of operating is usually much more convenient >> for the user because when you would use a SANE backend >> you would have to specify all the scanning parameters >> on your workstation by using a SANE frontend. >> But your workstation is normally far away from the network >> scanner device so that you would have to place a sheet in >> the network scanner and post a big red note on the network >> scanner that you are currently using it for scanning so that >> others know what is going on and don't remove your sheet, >> then walk back to your workstation to specify the scanning >> parameters and start the scan and finally you would have >> to walk again to the network scanner to fetch your sheet >> and remove your note and walk back to your workstation. >> Of course this way of operating is much better for the >> physical health of the company staff ;-) >> > > Yes, you are absolutely right! Operating scanner as you described is > absolutely silly ans useless. > > Originally I thought about starting SANE (through a frontend) and telling > it that images will be received from network scanner (of given type) > sitting on given address. Then go to scanner and scan images one after > another (with scanning parameters set on the scanner, as you wrote). > SANE will wait and receive the scanned images as they go through the > scanner. When I return back to the computer, there will be images opened > in the frontent, ready to be saved to disc (or already saved in some > temporary location ...). > OK, there are some issues about "stealing" scanned images to others, > when I would start SANE and another person starts scanning earlier than > me. The question also is, is such solution is possible (may not be supported > by network scanner machines). > > I ask, as just recently I tried to scan something, but I was not able > to get images from the scanner (e.g. through e-mail, as you wrote). > It seems that this e-mailing is not configured from some reasons, but > I am not able to change it. I enden by deleting the images from scanner > and asked someone to scan it for me to another day. I know that people > using Windows have an application which allows a download of scanned > images from the machine. But I do not know details about the app - should > I try to get some more info? > > I was just thinking, if when it is possible to access scanner from Windows, > if it is also possible (or planned) to access it from linux in the same > (or preferrably better ;-)) way. If such possibility is still as silly > as you described earlier, just write it to me and forget it ;-)
we have a big xerox scanner with a harddrive in it. when you scan, it stores the images on disk, and you reach them thru a webserver that runs on the machine. fujitsu's small network scanner seems to require a windows server running a daemon to receive the images. other machines use email. there is no reason that these things could not also use linux, but you would need to do a bit of network sniffing, and it would be very different for each machine type. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
