From: John Pritchard-williams <monojohnny@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T20:28:53+09:00
Subject: Re: using Ruby to control a scanner on Windows

James,

You'd probably need to write a 'C' wrapper for this. Or else perhaps use 
some library to send commands via the serial-port (if that is indeed how 
it is connected). (I don't know if there is a 'serial-port' library / 
gem available for Ruby or not)

Cheers

John


James Dinkel wrote:
> Does anybody know if it is possible to control a flatbed or sheetfed
> scanner from Ruby, on Windows XP?  My goal is to be able to place a
> paper on the scanner and then just start a Ruby script that would start
> up the scanner, resize the image (with rmagick), and then save the image
> to a file.  I need so guidance on how to control the scanner though.
> 
> James

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