[iyonix-support] Re: Scanners
- From: aw29009@xxxxxxxxx
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:24:04 -0800 (PST)
In message <gemini.kulo35003vrwz01r4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jeremy Nicoll - freelists iyo only
<jn.flists.73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> aw29009@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> So I would be able to use a scanner with a scan to PDF button? Or
>> would software still be required?
> The scanner I have has such a button. The way it works is there's a
> pointlessly bloated application which runs ALL THE TIME on Windows (if you
> install it - I didn't). Its sole purpose is to look for trigger info being
> passed from the scanner.
> When someone presses one of the 'intelligent' buttons on the scanner, the
> scanner just sends the info that button 2 (or whatever) has been pressed up
> to the computer via the USB connection.
> The always-wasting resources app says "Aha!" and starts whatever you've
> configured - which defaults to an app that can create PDF files (the appeal
> of which is mainly that they can hold multiple scans in one document - so
> useful for business scans of multipage documents, as much as their
> portability).
> Likewise the 'copy' button starts an app that integrates scanner image
> acquisition with printing to a default printer (it's typical of Windows that
> such integration is seen as suffciently abnormal to need a special app!).
> The scanner itself knows nothing about PDF.
> Even if such a thing could be implemented in RO, what's the point?
What I'm asking is if the PDF is sent automatically along the USB
cable and so a driver would not be required?
From what others have said, it appears a driver is still required and
I'd have to buy some old scanner rather than the slimline ones I'd
prefer to get.
Andrew
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