simple scan
Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 19:25
Simple scan is a very easy to use gui interface for scanning purposes:
https://launchpad.net/simple-scan
Its modus operandi is said to be so easy that in the slackware repostitories it has replace xsane in the more recent versions of slackware (invoking xsane will yield instead simple-scan):
http://lifehacker.com/5483366/simple-sc ... r+friendly
http://lwn.net/Articles/377063/
It is available thru PPM (Porteus Package Manager, Salix repository) or the salix repositories as a 13.1 slackware package:
http://slackware.org.uk/salix/x86_64/13 ... mple-scan/
In addition, you need the sane package.
Once the package is installed, all you have to do is to install the scanner driver specific to your printer. See usb driver install of scanner (an example for the MFC-7860DW brother printer:
https://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1336
Xsane works on porteus 1.2, but not on porteus 1.0 for the 32bit edition. I hope it works fine for the 64bit edition.
Why not having it directly into the porteus repository? I imagine that this would please rava.
https://launchpad.net/simple-scan
Its modus operandi is said to be so easy that in the slackware repostitories it has replace xsane in the more recent versions of slackware (invoking xsane will yield instead simple-scan):
http://lifehacker.com/5483366/simple-sc ... r+friendly
http://lwn.net/Articles/377063/
It is available thru PPM (Porteus Package Manager, Salix repository) or the salix repositories as a 13.1 slackware package:
http://slackware.org.uk/salix/x86_64/13 ... mple-scan/
In addition, you need the sane package.
Once the package is installed, all you have to do is to install the scanner driver specific to your printer. See usb driver install of scanner (an example for the MFC-7860DW brother printer:
https://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1336
Xsane works on porteus 1.2, but not on porteus 1.0 for the 32bit edition. I hope it works fine for the 64bit edition.
Why not having it directly into the porteus repository? I imagine that this would please rava.