Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:19:21 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4100c? Message-ID: <200512162019.49001.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051217010221.GA60469@thought.org> References: <20051217010221.GA60469@thought.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) > > A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen > reason, it does not work wsith W-XP, but might this work > with FBSD? > > Otherwise, I'm looking for a scanner with OCR-ware. For > either my W2K box or FBSD. I finally do have the book I'm > aiming to scan; I don;t know what happened to my friend > with the microfiche of this text. Zero reply. > > Is there anybody in the Western WA locale who'd be willing > to lend me scanner with OCR software or tell me what to > buy that works with FBSD. For $15, it's worth asking about. > Check out if sane supports it. I'm in a similar situation with a HP Scanjet 6200C. The driver on the HP isn't actually a driver so the scanner is useless in Windows. I booted into FreeBSD, kldload uscanner, and started xsane, it worked perfectly. I haven't tried the OCR part of xsane, but it should work. -- Anish Mistry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDo2e0xqA5ziudZT0RAkgCAJ4ojNJktw3njLou2uGwvRqlPrVhEACglhEh l3e2cYHiVQ7GZZa5vrQK/4w= =yX1J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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