From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 18:18:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8290E15302 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA22480 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:19:58 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:19:58 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: scanning/OCR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i tried this Q out a few days ago, and thought i'd try on last time. > i hear that UMAX scanners are broken, they tie up the scsi bus while > scanning. so i figure i'll get an HP. any other supported SCSI > devices that are "broken" ? > > FBSD 2.2.8 > Adaptec 2940UW > > anyway, i'm kind of new to scsi, and would like to know if i can avoid CAM > and SANE all all the rest of it, and just compile a pt0 + scsi kernel, and > do something like: > > image.ps < /dev/pt0 > > and > > cat image.ps | ocr-app > image.txt > > ps. anyone know if document feeders affect things at the driver level? > > pps. can i use 68 -> 50 and 68 -> 25 pin adapters? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message