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Re: scanner utility for hp sj2c ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond A. Ingles)
Thu Sep 11 18:15:15 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: " Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>
To: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709090913.LAA13204@zrt2.gfz-potsdam.de>
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been looking thru my RH4.2 CD, searching for some scanner
> utility. I understand that I must have SCSI generic support
> compiled into the kernel (it is: HP C1750A Rev. 3226, type
> Processor [???]).
> What will I need to scan (under X preferred) images with this device ?
There are several scanning options for Linux. There's the commercial
(but, I understand, cheap) XVScan, which works with HP scanners, uses XV
as its user interface, and is supposed to be quite good.
I seem to remember a program called hpscanpbm. I think it was a
command-line program to control HP scanners. You could look into that.
There's also SANE, which already can use several brands of scanner
(Mustek, UMAX, HP, etc.), with more being added all the time. Their URL
is http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/sane/.
For graphics manipulation after you've scanned in an image, XV and
ImageMagick offer a pretty good set of options. For more ambitious work,
there's the GIMP. I haven't looked into commercial Linux graphics
editors.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"A rainbow is not 'degraded' by having arisen from 'mere' physical
processes. Physical processes are *ennobled* by giving rise to
such beauty." - Me
