ot, networking a scanner

ot, networking a scanner

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi all, 

If the kernel supports my scanner, can I somehow network it
so that I could have it hooked up to my Linux box,
and be able to scan from it on a windows machine
which is networked to the Linux box?
Is there any documetation on this that someone could point me to?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Greg

Re: ot, networking a scanner

[Shaun Oliver]

hi greg,
couldn't you use samba for this task?
just a thought.
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gregory Nowak
wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> If the kernel supports my scanner, can I somehow network it
> so that I could have it hooked up to my Linux box,
> and be able to scan from it on a windows machine
> which is networked to the Linux box?
> Is there any documetation on this that someone could point me to?
> Thanks for any help in advance.
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
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Re: ot, networking a scanner

[Kirk Wood]

Well, in many ways this can be quite easy. Scan the image and save it so a
file in a SAMBA available directory. But if you are wanting to actually
control the scaner I would look at freshmeat.net to see what is found
there. Good luck, I doubt it.

If you really want a networked scanner I expect you would need to buy
one. But for the life of me, I don't understand how this would be useful
beyond the solution of saving a file on a network available location,
unless you happen to have a sheet fed scanner and were scanning a document
of multiple pages. 

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Re: ot, networking a scanner

[Gregory Nowak]

That's what I was thinking, but how do I share the scanner from Linux,
and how do I access it with programs such as openbook from windows?
I heard that it is possible to network a scanner, but I don't know how it's done.
Greg


On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:18:22AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> hi greg,
> couldn't you use samba for this task?
> just a thought.
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gregory Nowak
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > If the kernel supports my scanner, can I somehow network it
> > so that I could have it hooked up to my Linux box,
> > and be able to scan from it on a windows machine
> > which is networked to the Linux box?
> > Is there any documetation on this that someone could point me to?
> > Thanks for any help in advance.
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Shaun Oliver.
> 
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> 
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Re: ot, networking a scanner

[Janina Sajka]

Only reason I can think of for networking a scanner is to give access to 
several users at different workstations. Still, they would have to put the 
source document on the scanner in person, so such a function becomes a 
matter of having the scan results output to a different /home/$USER 
directory.

HP actually makes such a device/application--Windows only, and 
inaccessible software (regretably).

In the question at hand, are you wanting to have the option to use either 
a Win or a Linux ocr app? If so, it might be possible to use Wine for 
this. I read the Wine docs and have tweaked a few config files in 
preparation for some experimentation like that, but have not yet tried 
because of some X problems. It does seem that wine should work, though. 
Just maybe there is going to be a gpl answer to VMware.
 On Fri, 9 Nov 
2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> Well, in many ways this can be quite easy. Scan the image and save it so a
> file in a SAMBA available directory. But if you are wanting to actually
> control the scaner I would look at freshmeat.net to see what is found
> there. Good luck, I doubt it.
> 
> If you really want a networked scanner I expect you would need to buy
> one. But for the life of me, I don't understand how this would be useful
> beyond the solution of saving a file on a network available location,
> unless you happen to have a sheet fed scanner and were scanning a document
> of multiple pages. 
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
> 
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