Brainstorming on scanning

[Richard Kreiss]

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> Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:26 AM
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> Subject: Brainstorming on scanning
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> With John Esak working on a project to use the scanning features of
> AnzioWin, I thought I'd offer some thoughts about what's possible now and
> in the near future with AnzioWin, our terminal emulator.
> 
> 1) Scanning is designed to support any scanner that has a TWAIN interface.
> 
> 2) AnzioWin's menu system offers "Scan and print", "Scan and save", "Scan
>    and send" (to the server), and "Scan and View".
> 
> 3) Scanning can also be done via an Anzio command. Anzio commands can
> come from the host, from an Anzio macro, from a toolbar button, etc.
> 
> 4) We treat the scanner as an input file named "SCAN://". Many scan
> operations can be thought of as file copies from SCAN:// to somewhere
else.
> 
> 5) The following command will scan and save to a local file:
>      COPY SCAN:// c:\scans\somefile.jpg
> 
> 6) When the destination specifies a file extension, AnzioWin converts the
> image(s) into the corresponding format.
> 
> 7) The filename "SCAN://" can have additional parameters that specify
> various settings about the scanning, to allow you to scan more
> programmatically, less interactively.
> 
> 8) The following format specifies what scanner to use:
>       SCAN://MyHpScanner
> or
>       "SCAN://My Epson"
> where quotes protect the embedded space(s).
> 
> 9) This can be followed by one or more of
>      ?<variable>=<value>
> such as
>      ?format=color
> In this way you can specify number of pages, format, duplex, feeder, and
> what part of the page to scan.
> 
> 10) With
>       SHOW=FALSE
> the user interface will not show (unless necessary). Often, parameters
such
> as FORMAT will take place only if show=false (depends on scanner).
> 
> 11) In AnzioWin, if you do a scan while recording a macro, the macro will
> capture all the scanning parameters for you, into the macro. This can be a
> good way to learn syntax.
> 
> 12) There is support for manual duplexing, in which the user is prompted
to
> scan the back sides, and the program will merge them into the correct
order.
> 
> 13) There are options for scanning a set number of pages, or as many as
are
> in the feeder, or open-ended.
> 
> 14) Scans can be uploaded via Zmodem, FTP, SFTP, etc., to a specified
> location and name on the host.
> 
> This is all available in the current version (16.2) of AnzioWin and also
the
> current version (3.3) of the freestanding Print Wizard.
> 
> More is on the way. I've recently been working with an Epson workgroup
> scanner (GT-S50) which can scan sheet-fed, duplex (double-sided) in one
> pass, at about 20 pages per minute. For a particular project, I needed to
scan
> about 100 sheets, both sides, doing some rotation and cropping that was
> different for front-side and back-side. Scanning was 200 DPI gray, stored
into
> multiple PDF files. The resulting files have been copied to my iPad for
viewing
> - they're sheet music for a show I'm playing.
> 
> Now I'm working on adding a threshold-to-white, so some bleed-through
> from the back side goes away. Also working on JPG compression within PDF,
> for smaller files. Also working on making Print Wizard's previewer good
> enough to use for this purpose on a touch-capable TabletPC, as an
> alternative to the iPad. Then I can use a headset and Windows' speech
> recognition, so I can tell it when to turn pages. Sweet!

Bob, should I try my Dragon Naturally speaking 11.0 with Printwizard 4?

Next question, will the scanning option create a csv file?

Here's a tough one, can the scan program be set up to use an overlay to pull
the information from a form and then scan it to a CSV file?

Something like this can make it easy to get data into filepro from printed
forms. 


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
  



> 
> I'm always eager to discuss ideas for improvement, or answer any other
> questions.
> 
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 
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