From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 14 03:30:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA07068 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 03:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA07062 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 03:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 13749 on Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:30:15 GMT; id LAA13749 efrom: marc@bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA14317; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 12:28:14 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199802141128.MAA14317@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 5p (fwd) In-reply-to: luigi's message of Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:40:28 +0100. <199802131840.TAA22818@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Reply-to: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 12:28:14 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Since someone asked... (and I have no idea what is the proper group for > this!). Usual disclaimer on why i haven't made a port of this... > > > Hi Luigi, > > I have just bought myself a Scanjet 5p and was looking > > through the FreeBSD mail archives. Did you have any luck with finding > > modifications for hpscan or have you tried some other software. > > i ended up with a locally hacked version of hpscanpbm. It originally > produced pbm only, i fixed the commands issued to the scanner so that > the scanjet5p now is happy, and also added some code to produce bits > which can be fed directly to my laserjet printer so that i have a fast > copy machine... > > For user interface, i used tkscan when i am really desperate (or want > to show up with somebody who cannot type on a keyboard... > > Both programs have linux origins, i forget the original url, but the > code i use you can find at > > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/hpscanpbm.c > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/tkscan (it's a Tk/tcl program) > > hope this helps. Feel free to cleanup/redistribute them as you like. > i think the original sources are gpl-ed. > Did you give SANE a try, I tried it once with a scanjet 4p (I think) It seemed to work just fine, although I can't be sure since the scanner was broken, however it exhibited the same errors as unders windows. (I know this is lousy reasoning, but I managed to scan a few pages, before it would lock up) http://www.mostang.com/sane/ Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message