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<div><span>Haha. I meant in general I've wanted to try it out more because I want to get away from the absurd greed in the corporate driven OS options.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>:-) Nice. Which OS do you primarily use? <br>
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<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 16:07, m. allan noah wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>OSX has unix in there somewhere, no need to switch OS just for this.<br>Why do you assume I use Linux? Because I have been helpful, and not<br>asked for any money? :)<br><br>allan<br><br>On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Joel <<a href="mailto:featheredtar@gmail.com">featheredtar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Oh okay. That makes more sense. :-) I'm going to try Linux out more. Which<br>distro do you use?<br><br>--<br>Joel<br>Sent with Sparrow<br><br>On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 15:52, m. allan noah wrote:<br><br>No, you re-write the pseudocode in a real programming language :) What<br>I gave was something kinda like shell, which can be stored in a text<br>file, made executable, and run directly. Not sure how that works on a<br>mac...<br><br>allan<br><br>On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joel <<a href="mailto:featheredtar@gmail.com">featheredtar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Neat. So far my experience with SANE is using it as a TWAIN plugin for Mac<br>OSX's Image Capture. The text based commands seem much better than the gaudy<br>manufacturer supplied GUIs though! Maybe I'll direct my future scanner<br>purchases to SANE supported scanners. Into which program(s) do I input the<br>pseudocode?<br><br>--<br>Joel<br>Sent with Sparrow<br><br>On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 15:31, m. allan noah wrote:<br><br>Sane is very different from the GUI scanning you are used to. what you<br>want is as simple as this pseudocode:<br><br>while(1){<br>scanimage -d"devicename1" > directory1/`date +%s`.pnm<br>scanimage -d"devicename2" > directory2/`date +%s`.pnm<br>scanimage -d"devicename3" > directory3/`date +%s`.pnm<br>sleep(1200);<br>}<br><br>unfortunately, this only works if your scanners are supported. the<br>cs3200 and cs5600, not so much.<br><br>allan<br><br>On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Joel Penner <<a href="mailto:featheredtar@gmail.com">featheredtar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Thanks. Here I'm using a CanoScan 5600F (the Mac driver of which is kind of<br>unstable, and the shipped program horribly bloated!,) an Epson Perfection<br>V33 (a bad scanner!,) and a CanoScan 3200 (which I'm using with VueScan,<br>it's proven to be very stable.) At home I have another CS 5600F, two CS LiDE<br>20s, a CS 5000, an Agfa Snapscan e20 and e50, and a really good Epson<br>scanner, the name of which I forget. I could VNC the computer to find out,<br>but I'm on my cell phone data connection right now...<br>The issue of resource hogging isn't common. So far I've only starkly<br>experienced it with the CS 5600Fs. It's unfortunate that such an amazing<br>scanner has to have such a shoddy Mac backend/driver. Hopefully the eventual<br>SANE backend will be better!<br>Similar to your idea, initially I tried running multiple instances of<br>VueScan, but because the specific scanners weren't specified to each<br>instance, they presumably conflicted, causing the different instances<br>to occasionally crash. How would one give explicit device names to each<br>copy? I am very comfortable with OS GUIs, but unfortunately have done almost<br>no programming.<br>- Joel<br>On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:05 AM, m. allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com">kitno455@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Neat videos!<br><br>The answer to your question depends on the scanner, and the driver (we<br>call them backends).<br><br>1. Some scanners are really dumb and require the host software to do<br>lots of processing to get a usable image. You could certainly stagger<br>the scans so that two scanners were never in use at the same time.<br><br>2. Some backends are written to only talk to one scanner, and may not<br>play well if two scanners are open from within the same application.<br>It might be possible to avoid this by running multiple copies of the<br>app, and giving explicit device names to each copy.<br><br>What scanners are you using now?<br><br>allan<br><br>On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Joel Penner <<a href="mailto:featheredtar@gmail.com">featheredtar@gmail.com</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>Hi. I'm currently using multiple scanners for a project where I have<br>flowers<br>scanned a few times an hour to make videos of the desiccation process.<br>I'm<br>currently in Germany where I've managed to get three scanners running<br>off of<br>one iBook, but at home I have eight scanners strewn across multiple old<br>computers. My original idea was to have all the scanners running off of<br>one<br>computer, but issues with drivers conflicting with each other in<br>addition to<br>poorly programmed drivers which use over half of the CPU's resources<br>while<br>scanning presented problems. I've been using the included software<br>packages<br>where possible, and VueScan when not. I've experimented a bit with SANE.<br>I<br>was wondering what people thought about the possibility of running<br>multiple<br>scanners off of one computer. Does SANE support this? And I've been<br>using<br>solely PPC Macs running either 10.4 or 10.5 so far.<br>You can find some videos of my project here:<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/featheredtar/sets/72157611634807864/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/featheredtar/sets/72157611634807864/</a><br>Thanks,<br>Joel<br>--<br>sane-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel</a><br>Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password"<br> to <a href="mailto:sane-devel-request@lists.alioth.debian.org">sane-devel-request@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br><br><br><br>--<br>"The truth is an offense, but not a sin"<br><br><br><br>--<br>"The truth is an offense, but not a sin"<br><br><br><br>--<br>"The truth is an offense, but not a sin"<br></div></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>"The truth is an offense, but not a sin"<br></div></div></span>
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