[sane-devel] Multiple Scanner Support

[m. allan noah]

OS/distro is a fairly religious subject, and what I use might not be
the best for a new user. So, you'd best do your own research.

allan

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Joel <featheredtar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> :-) Nice. Which OS do you primarily use?
>
> --
> Joel
> Sent with Sparrow
>
> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 16:07, m. allan noah wrote:
>
> OSX has unix in there somewhere, no need to switch OS just for this.
> Why do you assume I use Linux? Because I have been helpful, and not
> asked for any money? :)
>
> allan
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Joel <featheredtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh okay. That makes more sense. :-) I'm going to try Linux out more. Which
> distro do you use?
>
> --
> Joel
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>
> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 15:52, m. allan noah wrote:
>
> No, you re-write the pseudocode in a real programming language :) What
> I gave was something kinda like shell, which can be stored in a text
> file, made executable, and run directly. Not sure how that works on a
> mac...
>
> allan
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joel <featheredtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Neat. So far my experience with SANE is using it as a TWAIN plugin for Mac
> OSX's Image Capture. The text based commands seem much better than the gaudy
> manufacturer supplied GUIs though! Maybe I'll direct my future scanner
> purchases to SANE supported scanners. Into which program(s) do I input the
> pseudocode?
>
> --
> Joel
> Sent with Sparrow
>
> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 15:31, m. allan noah wrote:
>
> Sane is very different from the GUI scanning you are used to. what you
> want is as simple as this pseudocode:
>
> while(1){
> scanimage -d"devicename1" > directory1/`date +%s`.pnm
> scanimage -d"devicename2" > directory2/`date +%s`.pnm
> scanimage -d"devicename3" > directory3/`date +%s`.pnm
> sleep(1200);
> }
>
> unfortunately, this only works if your scanners are supported. the
> cs3200 and cs5600, not so much.
>
> allan
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Joel Penner <featheredtar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks. Here I'm using a CanoScan 5600F (the Mac driver of which is kind of
> unstable, and the shipped program horribly bloated!,) an Epson Perfection
> V33 (a bad scanner!,) and a CanoScan 3200 (which I'm using with VueScan,
> it's proven to be very stable.) At home I have another CS 5600F, two CS LiDE
> 20s, a CS 5000, an Agfa Snapscan e20 and e50, and a really good Epson
> scanner, the name of which I forget. I could VNC the computer to find out,
> but I'm on my cell phone data connection right now...
> The issue of resource hogging isn't common. So far I've only starkly
> experienced it with the CS 5600Fs. It's unfortunate that such an amazing
> scanner has to have such a shoddy Mac backend/driver. Hopefully the eventual
> SANE backend will be better!
> Similar to your idea, initially I tried running multiple instances of
> VueScan, but because the specific scanners weren't specified to each
> instance, they presumably conflicted, causing the different instances
> to occasionally crash. How would one give explicit device names to each
> copy? I am very comfortable with OS GUIs, but unfortunately have done almost
> no programming.
> - Joel
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:05 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Neat videos!
>
> The answer to your question depends on the scanner, and the driver (we
> call them backends).
>
> 1. Some scanners are really dumb and require the host software to do
> lots of processing to get a usable image. You could certainly stagger
> the scans so that two scanners were never in use at the same time.
>
> 2. Some backends are written to only talk to one scanner, and may not
> play well if two scanners are open from within the same application.
> It might be possible to avoid this by running multiple copies of the
> app, and giving explicit device names to each copy.
>
> What scanners are you using now?
>
> allan
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Joel Penner <featheredtar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm currently using multiple scanners for a project where I have
> flowers
> scanned a few times an hour to make videos of the desiccation process.
> I'm
> currently in Germany where I've managed to get three scanners running
> off of
> one iBook, but at home I have eight scanners strewn across multiple old
> computers. My original idea was to have all the scanners running off of
> one
> computer, but issues with drivers conflicting with each other in
> addition to
> poorly programmed drivers which use over half of the CPU's resources
> while
> scanning presented problems. I've been using the included software
> packages
> where possible, and VueScan when not. I've experimented a bit with SANE.
> I
> was wondering what people thought about the possibility of running
> multiple
> scanners off of one computer. Does SANE support this? And I've been
> using
> solely PPC Macs running either 10.4 or 10.5 so far.
> You can find some videos of my project here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/featheredtar/sets/72157611634807864/
> Thanks,
> Joel
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