Re: [opensuse] Kooka|Sane and Network scanner

2008/10/28 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>:

Hello,

On Oct 24 12:14 Ciro Iriarte wrote:

At the office we have a Lanier multifunction machine
(printer/scanner), cups can handle the printer part, but I haven't
found a way to use sane with the network scanner function. I know
there's a Windows supported app that can handle this, but I can't find
anywhere if it uses a standard protocol or how the connection is made
(tcp/ip port).

I don't know about a standard protocol how to access a scanner
in the network (except what SANE with the saned does).


Anyone got this kind of machine working for remote scanning?, I know
you can scan-to-email, but i'm looking to use Kooka with it...

You need a driver for SANE (a so called SANE backend)
which implements whatever the protocol is how to access
this particular scanner via its network interface.
Have a look at
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

By the way:
The HP driver HPLIP supports to access HP all-in-one
devices directly via network if the HP all-in-one device
has an original HP network card built-in and if the
device is listed as supported for access via network at
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html


If there is whatever third-party driver, it depends whether
or not the third-party driver implements the SANE API
so that you can use a SANE scanning frontend (e.g. Kooka).
Otherwise you can only use whatever scanning frontend
which matches to the particular third-party driver.


If there is no driver, you can only scan-to-email.

I do not understand why you don't prefer scan-to-email.

Normally one can scan directly on a big and fat network
printer scanner copier and specify scan resolution
and image file format (e.g. tiff, PDF, ...) and all the
other scanning options directly at the device and in
particular one can specify an e-mail address to which
the device will send the scanned image file so that one
will receive the scanned image as a mail attachment
according to what was specified as image file format.

This way of operating is usually much more convenient
for the user because when you would use a SANE backend
you would have to specify all the scanning parameters
on your workstation by using a SANE frontend.
But your workstation is normally far away from the network
scanner device so that you would have to place a *** in
the network scanner and post a big red note on the network
scanner that you are currently using it for scanning so that
others know what is going on and don't remove your ***,
then walk back to your workstation to specify the scanning
parameters and start the scan and finally you would have
to walk again to the network scanner to fetch your ***
and remove your note and walk back to your workstation.
Of course this way of operating is much better for the
physical health of the company staff ;-)


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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Well, i'm in fact 5 meters away :p

I couldn't find any backend that seems to be related to the scanner...
Probably i'm out of luck. The hardware is a Lanier 328c, checking a
Windows host that has the scanner configured I see it has this driver
installed: "Type 3245 TWAIN Ver.3.83Jc" and searching for "Linux|sane
type3245" isn't that helpful either....

Regards,
Ciro
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