Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, They use Adobe Greetings The most interesting option for image acquisition with HP scanners under Linux seems to be `XVScan', which is based on John Bradley's -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
I have a HP ScanJet 4C here and use it with Debian/Linux. It works great. You have to include the generic SCSI interface to the kernel and install the hpscanpbm package. I prefer xvscan, a patched xv version that allows scanning directly into xv. It's great! Note that you have to pay for this, but it's only US $50. Note also, that you will propably need a little more RAM than what you need if you use Windoze. (It seams as xv consumes much more memory when scanning highres than the Windoze progs do.) Bye, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN! -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
[NOTE: I am sending this again because for some strange reason only part of this message was distributed by the debian-user list...] On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, They use Adobe Greetings The most interesting option for image acquisition with HP scanners under Linux seems to be `XVScan', which is based on John Bradley's `xv'. You can find information about XVScan at http://www.tummy.com/. It's not free, but you can get it for $50US (it includes source code). I haven't used it yet, but am planning to buy it (currently we only boot M$-DOS/windows when there is a need to use the acquisition and OCR software which came with our ScanJet 4c). If only there was a nice OCR package which could run under Linux... (sometimes I dream of starting such a (free OCR) project myself, but... I am aware that there would be a LOT to learn before). Let's hope HP (or some competitor) starts paying more attention to Microsoft-free environments... JM -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, They use Adobe Photoshop, and I think the GIMP could fill that need). Anyways, I need to know, I haven't actually dug into Linux yet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
GREENE == GREENE KENNETH ADAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GREENE This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am GREENE to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web GREENE pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I GREENE can get their ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, The HP ScanJet is supported -- just install hpscanpbm, in the graphics section. The ScanJet needs to be connected to a SCSI card supported by Linux. I've had good results with the 4p using Adaptec 2940 and Buslogic 946C adapters. Be sure to get the latest version (0.3a-3) -- it includes the manpage I just wrote. If you have any problem, please let me know. GREENE They use Adobe Photoshop, and I think the GIMP could fill that GREENE need). Anyways, I need to know, I haven't actually dug into GREENE Linux yet. We create web pages for over 100 member libraries here using Linux, using imagemagick, xv, the gimp, perl, emacs, Apache, and of course Netscape Gold 3.01b1 for XWindows95. (Well, fvwm95 2.0.42a-6 anyway.) The system runs with nine 1280x1024 virtual screens, and is therefore far more productive, I think, than a similar Windows 95 system would be. But I still have to boot the Win 95 partition occasionally to do OCR (sigh) http://tln.lib.mi.us/ ~ mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician mm mm Research Development, The Library Network m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 mm mm GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
