Running a document scanner from unix?
David H. Funte
Does anyone know of software available for SCO? I assume one would need a
SCSI scanner?
thanks
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Crossfire
] I have a need to scan documents into a database on a SCO 5.05 box.
]
] Does anyone know of software available for SCO? I assume one would need a
] SCSI scanner?
I tried to get SANE (www.mostang.com/sane) to work under 5.0.5 but didn't
have much luck. I really didn't try very hard, though. It works
perfectly under UnixWare 7 though.
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Jon Reid -- jon <at> apeiros <dot> com
David H. Funte
support SCO. I found old documents that shows that they used to port to
SCO, but their current page doesn't mention SCO port.
I suppose I could compile it, but I seldom have good luck compiling other
peoples code.
Thanks, I may end up using that.
Crossfire <jonLU...@MEATapeiros.com> wrote in message
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John DuBois
In article <slrn95s86q.qk...@olethros.apeiros.com>,
Crossfire <jonLU...@MEATapeiros.com> wrote:
+I tried to get SANE (www.mostang.com/sane) to work under 5.0.5 but didn't
+have much luck. I really didn't try very hard, though. It works
+perfectly under UnixWare 7 though.
To operate a scsi scanner, SANE requires that the OS present a generic scsi
driver, which is something OpenServer doesn't have.
John
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John DuBois jo...@sco.com KC6QKZ/AE
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. - Charles Babbage
Brian K. White
search an archive of this newsgroup on deja-news or equivalant
search for "PPPoE"
some months ago a guy posted here that he had written PPPoE drivers for
osr5
(for use with dsl modems)
I had a phone conversation with him and he claimed to have several drivers
for all manner of hardware for osr5. We spoke specifically about scanner
drivers because that is something I've wanted for a long time too. I threw
the question out never expecting a "yes", but he said he had scanner
drivers for any hp scanner you care to name, could whip one up for any
that he didn't already have.
Like a dork I never got his name and contact info in that first call, and
he never called back, and he had called me in the first place in response
to my email reply to his post here.
now, alas, the email account he used to post to the newsgroup is defunct,
so, I can tell you that there is that maybe they exist, but that it will
be hard to track them down with only an old derelict email address and a
first name or initials in the body of the post to go on.
the prices were, imo, cheap too.
have fun :)
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Brian K. White http://www.squonk.net/users/linut
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an...@tipas.lt
"David H. Funte" <none> wrote:
Look at http://www.jodian.com/ezscanunix.html.
Andrey Bondar, SysAdmin,
T.I.P.A.S. Ltd, Lithuania
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Crossfire
]
] In article <slrn95s86q.qk...@olethros.apeiros.com>,
] Crossfire <jonLU...@MEATapeiros.com> wrote:
] +I tried to get SANE (www.mostang.com/sane) to work under 5.0.5 but didn't
] +have much luck. I really didn't try very hard, though. It works
] +perfectly under UnixWare 7 though.
]
] To operate a scsi scanner, SANE requires that the OS present a generic scsi
] driver, which is something OpenServer doesn't have.
Ah yes, I remember now. (It's been over a year since I tried this.) I
remember talking with someone who HAD gotten it to work on OpenServer, but
they had been using a beta version of a SCSI driver...at that point I gave
up. I was migrating to UnixWare soon after that, and I'd seen sane and
xsane in the new Skunkware for UW7.
On UnixWare, when you install the sane and xsane binaries, they add a
nifty Scanner Manager to scoadmin. It works quite well.
]
] John
] --
] John DuBois jo...@sco.com KC6QKZ/AE
] I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. - Charles Babbage
cary...@my-deja.com
Evan Hunt
Don't blame me, I voted for cary...@my-deja.com.
>Do such drivers exist, if so then where can I obtain / purchase them?
Check DejaNews--someone posted a while back that he had one for sale.
I'm working on one as a spare-time project, and will share it when it's
done, but it's going slowly.
--
Evan Hunt - evanh at sco dot com
"I have always wished my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
Brian K. White
that dude I keep mentioning must have been a fake, or for whatever reason
just evaporated
did anyone else talk to him? I can't be the only one who saw the post...
I woulda thought he'd have been slammed with a truckload of responses.