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 (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) 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 > (mailto: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 > > Sent with Sparrow > > > > 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 > > (mailto: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 > > (mailto: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 > > (mailto: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 > > (mailto: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 > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > (mailto: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 > > (mailto:sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org) > > > > > > > > -- > > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > > > > > > > > -- > > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > > > > > > > > -- > > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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