Brainstorming on scanning
John Esak
john at valar.com
Tue Sep 28 14:22:48 PDT 2010
Bob,
Thanks so much... I'm working again tonight on this... Soon I will post up
some of what I've found. This note is extremely helpful, Bob. Thanks.
Boy, I have to say. And I know a lot of you will have great fun in listening
to me say "I was wrong..." :-) I do say that a lot, contrary to what many
of you may think. :-) (Actually, I say it a lot less, now that I'm not
married... :-) :-)) But, you know I've talked about using FacetWin for
years... And it has always been in place at Nexus for terminal emulation. I
only had two or three instances of people using anziowin or anziolite for
one reason or another. With the advent of the newest versions of anziowin
(and probably a good d3al before this) I would have gotten SO much more
functionality and use out of anziowin, had I just spent a little time with
it. The ability to use SSH, the ability to marquee-select an area on the
screen with a mouse and then copy that area somewhere, the ability to scan
and turn things immediately into a PDF, all the functionality that PrintWiz
(lots of it in anziowin) gives to filePro... On and on. Really, I should
have been using anziowin for at least the past 10 years and maybe more.
Truly, the only reason I glommed onto FacetWin was its ability to "share"
with the Unix system. This was important when having people login from home
with VPN's and so forth. But, anziowin for the terminal emulation and SAMBA
for the sharing is very much more flexible and administrable. I have always
tried to mention anziowin when talking about terminal emulation, just
because I thought that would only be fair if I was talking about FacetWin,
but from this moment on I am a committed anziowin user. The biggest and
most compelling reason is that no server is required on the host to use it.
FacetWin locks you to communicating only with servers that have *their*
proprietary server loaded on it. What a severe limitation! Plus, do the
math, the anziowin product is just SO much cheaper to use in any situation.
(And I have never even looked into multiple license schemes I noticed on the
anzio site when gathering the docs for scanning. If you are a FacetWin user,
take the time to look into anziowin before you buy your next user license
for FacetWin. God, I almost hate to do this, because I have great friends
at Facetcorp. My hope is that they progress into the V/IP market and phone
systems of the future. That is their forte now. I do not want to slight them
in any way, their support over the years is without any doubt, the very best
that the Unix community has ever offered... And I stand by that. I don't
think anyone can show me a better company in that regard. They have always
worked with and solved any problem we had in using their product. The only
thing I can say, is Anzio is the same way. Great support... As you can see,
Bob, frequents this list and that is an added extra bonus. Last thing and
I'll stay in the paragraph... The real reason I have always used FacetWin,
and now it can be said, since SCO is up for sale and no one knows what it
will do in the future... Or even if it has one. The real reason was that
SCO ignores the FacetWin server and FacetWin users login *through* the
FacetWin server NOT the SCO login function, so the user isn't counted when
checking against the number of purchased licenses. One could buy a 5 user
SCO license and run 80 or 90 users with FacetWin and SCO simply didn't care.
This had some financial benefit. It borders on the illegal, but not really.
SCO didn't care... They only counted users logged in through *their* login
procedure.... I asked once.... They didn't care. But now, that is simply
not important, with Linux and even with SCO, the added functionality of
anziowin makes it far and away a better choice. I hope my friends at
Facetcorp forgive me. :-)
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: filePro Mailing List
> 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!
>
> I'm always eager to discuss ideas for improvement, or answer
> any other
> questions.
>
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>
> personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
> company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
> voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
> fax: (US) 503-624-0760
> web: http://www.anzio.com
> street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
> Portland, OR 97223 USA
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