Copy-function in Canoscan N670U
Hi I'm the happy owner of a Canoscan N670U, that outputs nice images. But there are some buttons in the front. I wonder if they can be used in Linux. It's the copy button in particular which I'd like to run a script to scan and print the document. Do anybody know if these buttons give some sort of signal that can be caught in, say, a Perl script?
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 22:27 +0200, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Hi
I'm the happy owner of a Canoscan N670U, that outputs nice images.
But there are some buttons in the front. I wonder if they can be used in Linux. It's the copy button in particular which I'd like to run a script to scan and print the document.
Do anybody know if these buttons give some sort of signal that can be caught in, say, a Perl script?
If it just a copy mode of the machine why would you need to issue the command from your PC to simply copy something? If what you mean is to scan something into your PC that is different. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
If it just a copy mode of the machine why would you need to issue the command from your PC to simply copy something? If what you mean is to scan something into your PC that is different.
I may not have explained myself well enough. It's a scanner, and only a scanner. There's a button labelled "Copy" on the front of it. I don't know what it's for, but I asume that it can be set up (on Windows) to copy the paper being scanned by outputting it to the printer. There's another button called "email" that would serve another purpose.
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 00.49, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
If it just a copy mode of the machine why would you need to issue the command from your PC to simply copy something? If what you mean is to scan something into your PC that is different.
I may not have explained myself well enough.
It's a scanner, and only a scanner. There's a button labelled "Copy" on the front of it. I don't know what it's for, but I asume that it can be set up (on Windows) to copy the paper being scanned by outputting it to the printer.
There's another button called "email" that would serve another purpose.
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The buttons usally are "automatic" when installing a windows driver/software package from the manufactorer of the scanner. Copy USALLY just scans the page into whetever software that is suplied. Email uses Outlook/Outlook Express to make a email with the scanned page as an attachment. Try snooping the USB (if it is a USB scanner) and see what is sent as you press the buttons. There are softwares and scripts that can use the "input" to execute a command/program for Linux (Even though i havent found or used any)
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Kaare Rasmussen
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Ken Schneider
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Rikard Johnels