Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 12:28:14 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 5p (fwd) Message-ID: <199802141128.MAA14317@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: luigi's message of Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:40:28 %2B0100. <199802131840.TAA22818@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> 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
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