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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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