* ot, networking a scanner @ Gregory Nowak ` Shaun Oliver ` Kirk Wood 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: ot, networking a scanner ot, networking a scanner Gregory Nowak @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Gregory Nowak ` Kirk Wood 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver. "We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." email: shauno@goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: ot, networking a scanner ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Shaun Oliver. > > "We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going > to discuss it with our staff." > email: shauno@goanna.net.au > ICQ: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: ot, networking a scanner ot, networking a scanner Gregory Nowak ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Kirk Wood ` Janina Sajka 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Kirk Wood @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup 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 $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." - President George Bush ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: ot, networking a scanner ` Kirk Wood @ ` Janina Sajka 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Only reason I can think of for networking a scanner is to give access to several users at different workstations. Still, they would have to put the source document on the scanner in person, so such a function becomes a matter of having the scan results output to a different /home/$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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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