Fujitsu still makes twain drivers for this machine, even for ancient versions of windows. Even though I happen to think the sane-fujitsu backend is better, I don't see any reason to use it (and sane-twain) over the native drivers on the windows platform. Find a scsi card that works, and go to it.
allan On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Mike Wirth <mwirth at gmail.com> wrote: > The good news: I am now the proud owner of a Fujitsu fi-4750C scanner and > anticipate converting the mountain of paper in my life to bits in PDF files. > > The bad news: I now have to revisit the sins of my youth and reconstruct a > suitable SCSI and driver environment so I can use my copy of Adobe Acrobat 9 > Pro to scan directly to image PDFs and thence OCR in ClearScan format. > (ClearScan is neat -- check it out if you don't know about it. Gives you > high compression from the images scans, searchable text,?and?very legible > synthesized vector fonts -- no jaggies, by sampling the glyph bitmaps. > Disclaimer: I used to work at Adobe on Acrobat engineering, not ClearScan > directly, but my team did help with it and integrated it into Acrobat.) > > I have several options for host machine and OS: > A variety of Macs, including Intel Macbooks, a PPC Mac Mini (no PCI slots on > any of these, sigh... :-) and a PPC G5 (has slots, running Mac OS X 10.5.8) > Run a Win XP VM under VMware Fusion (post-4.1 beta) on the Macbooks. (Don't > recall the SCSI support in Fusion.) > Also have an IBM ThinkPad T23 running Win XP with(!) a full (not mini) dock > with a PCI slot. > Could even buy a cheap PC to dedicate to scanning. > > Re SCSI cards, I rifled through my junk bin and found a handful by ATTO, > Adaptec, etc., But it seems like driver and OS support for all of them and > compatibility with my machines is problematic. But, hey, used ones are cheap > and a glut online. > > And, of course, I have a whole bushel basket of SCSI cables, terminators, > etc :-) > > So here are a couple questions: > 1. I'm presuming I can use SANE for part of my solution, possibly in > combination with SANE TWAIN. What configuration of hardware and SANE would > you recommend? Any experience with similar configurations? > > 2. How about experience with the scanner itself? Is there an internal > maintenance guide available? (I have the operator's and user maintenance > docs. And I have my own small electronics and machine shop :-) > > BTW, I do software (and hardware) development and am comfortable with C (and > even have used it in anger :-) > > TIA, > > Mike > Palo Alto, CA > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"