Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:44:52 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any nice GUI for HP scanners ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971029123002.445A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <199710291704.SAA09392@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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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
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