From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 12:40:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12487 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA12480 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA00516; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:44:53 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:44:52 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Luigi Rizzo cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any nice GUI for HP scanners ? In-Reply-To: <199710291704.SAA09392@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > I have just bought an HP Scanject5p, which is really cheap and fast. > > It more or less works with the "hpscan" program that I found in the > port collection, but there are probably some incompatibilities, maybe > due to some commands which are not supported by the scanner. > > In any case, i am not completely satisfied with the GUI so am trying > to write a different GUI based on tk/tcl -- it also serves me as an > exercise. > > Is there anyone who has some code to talk to the HP ScanJet5p (or some > other HP scanner) to use as a reference ? There are at least two programs of this kind - xvscan (commercial, based on xv, by tummy.com) and SANE which is a common framework for scanners and other image input devices handling (http://www.mostang.com/sane/). -- Alex