USB scanners and linux

[Thomas D. Ward]

Try a site called Vividata.com.
I believe they have some really good OCR packages using the Care Omnipage
scan engine. However, I am almost sure the applications are all now GUI, and
not commandline. However, it is worth a look.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Nestrud" <ccn at uark.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: USB scanners and linux


> What command-line packages are their that can take advantage of a
> scanner? My HP is working well, and I know of scan-image and gocr (which
> didn't work quite as well). Any other things I can have a look at?
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > Basically, with the scanners you just compile a 2.2.18 Kernel for your
Linux
> > distro, and while making the config file select USB support, and answer
yes
> > to the USB scanner support.
> > Most scanners will work with the generic driver. Read the documentation
that
> > comes with the 2.218 Kernel to get a complete list of scanners
supported.
> > As far as I can tell Red Hat seams to find my Umax Astra just fine, but
I
> > haven't tested it with some scanner packages yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Cc: <blinux-newbie at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:53 PM
> > Subject: USB scanners and linux
> >
> >
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > For complex financial reasons, we need to buy something now and we
> > > thought it should be a scanner.  We would like to go USB since SCSI is
> > > expensive and parallel is sooo slow.  Anyway, I need to know if there
are
> > > any issues with using USB scanners under 2.2.18.  Are there drivers
for
> > > each scanner or is there like some kind of standard interface?  Also,
I
> > > have a PC without onboard USB support.  I believe that I can get a
card
> > > for USB without too much expense to the management. But does this
create
> > > problems for the USB support under linux?
> > >
> > > Any comments would be helpful. This is a matter of some urgency.
> > >
> > > Geoff.
> > >
> > >
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