Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)
[NOTE: I am sending this again because for some strange reason
only part of this message was distributed by the debian-user list...]
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote:
> This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to
> make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages,
> E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their
> ScanJet to work, I probably could sell them, They use Adobe
Greetings
The most interesting option for image acquisition with HP scanners under
Linux seems to be `XVScan', which is based on John Bradley's `xv'. You can
find information about XVScan at http://www.tummy.com/. It's not free,
but you can get it for $50US (it includes source code). I haven't used it
yet, but am planning to buy it (currently we only boot M$-DOS/windows when
there is a need to use the acquisition and OCR software which came with
our ScanJet 4c).
If only there was a nice OCR package which could run under Linux...
(sometimes I "dream" of starting such a (free OCR) project myself, but...
I am aware that there would be a LOT to learn before). Let's hope HP
(or some competitor) starts paying more attention to Microsoft-free
environments...
JM
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