Writing a SCANNER script ....

[Ben Duncan]

Thanks ... will google all the suggestions.  Seems the Comptroller
wants to IDIOT proof scanning pictures for obituaries, and as much
as I hate to say it, GUI (Both Linux and Windsloth) are JUST to much
to go thru for the Funeral Directors

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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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