Scanner tools (drivers)?

[Dave Olson]

In <1991May17.174638 at hiatus.zko.dec.com> kevin at hiatus.zko.dec.com (Kevin D. Baranski-Walker) writes:

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| Has anyone run across a handler (for lack of a better term) for any of the
| widely available scanners? (E.g., HP Scanjet, Abaton, Epson, ...)  It seems
| a waste to be forced to use a PC [or Mac, or whatever] just to scan.
| 

The scanner program in 3.3 in eoe2.sw.moregltools has support
for the Ricoh FS1 color scanner (up to 400dpi) and the IS11
256 grayscale scanner.

I think there may be a new scanner program in 4.0, but I'm
not sure which scanners it will support.  Writing a *simple*
scanner progam (i.e., no fancy user interface) for most scsi
scanners using the devscsi driver shouldn't take more than
a few hours to a few days, depending on your familiarity
with SCSI, scanners, and of course just how well the particular
scanner adheres to the SCSI standards, given the documentation
for the scanner.

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	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.