Hi everybody,

I just found a way to use a scanner with OTC; so I'm sharing !


Context
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I'm using OTC to open RDP sessions on Windows.
Users don't see OTC at all (except during boot and shutdown).
I had a Windows XP box dedicated for the scanner :-(


Idea
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Install Sane and scanbuttond on OTC and transfer the scan result to a
Linux box with SSH where the file can be converted into JPG/PDF
Then share those output files using Samba.


Custom Script
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Place the following script in
openthinclient:/opt/openthinclient/server/default/data/nfs/root/custom/
http://pastebin.com/hnRhXzqp

Tricky part is the "sleep 1m" at the beginning.
When the script is called, there's no network yet, so we have to wait
about a minute and then we can download the packages and install them.
It just means that no scan can be made right after the boot, but it's
not really a problem.


buttonpressed.sh
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I'm using the following scanner
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b8:011e Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1660 Photo

It has 4 buttons -> 4 differents quality settings:
http://pastebin.com/38KtHM6M

Convertion is made using Imagemagick on the Linux box.


Result
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Works great, it takes about 10 seconds to scan a document in normal
quality. Seems to be stable enough :-)


Enjoy, and thanks for the great OTC suite !
Jef

-- 
Jean-Francois Bucas
IT System Administrator
School of Theoretical Physics
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
10 Burlington Road
Dublin 4
Tel. +353 1 614 0132

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