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Re: Scanner ? (was Re: Question about SCSI devices)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Sun Nov 10 17:05:19 1996

From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:02:46 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <19961110205437.31812.qmail@brouhaha.com> from "Eric Smith" at Nov 10, 96 08:54:37 pm
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> Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> wrote:
> > I think XVscan is XV with hpscanpbm integrated (which is probably
> > a good choice if you want a graphical interface).
> 
> I don't think it is the hpscanpbm code per se.  But it does provide a very
> nice graphical interface.  I use it with my ScanJet 4c.

I thought they mention somewhere on there Web pages that it is based
on hpscanpbm.  But I'm not sure about this.

> However, when I have "bulk" scanning to do (hundreds of monochrome or
> greyscale pages), I still use hpscanpbm, because a command line controlled
> tool is actually an advantage there.  Actually XVScan can do that too, but
> my scripts are already set up to use hpscanpbm.
> 
> XVScan isn't free, but it is well worth the low price they charge for it.
> 	http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/

And you get the source too, isn't it?

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