Writing a SCANNER script ....

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 07, 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:
> I need tow write some sort of SCANNER script that can activate
> the scanner, scan an image and save the image all without the user having
> to use a GUI front end. ANYONE done anything like this before ?

This is certainly possible using the CLI sane commands.  We did
extensive work with CLI stuff using the Vividata scanning and OCR
software about 10 years ago, using a perl::Tk interface to
control high-end Ricoh scanners (the only time I ever had to
modify Linux kernel modules was to get them to recognize the
Ricoh ADF responses).

Bill
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