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From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven)
Subject: (hand) scanner drivers for 386BSD?
Message-ID: <C6ro74.47x@cs.vu.nl>
Keywords: handscanners genius b105a
Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 15:54:39 GMT
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Hello!

Recently I bought a Genius B105A hand scanner, a fairly new true-256-
greyscale model. It gives good scanning results with the Windows
software that came with it, and the OCR software isn't bad either,
but I figure it will be fun to try writing OCR software myself, for
386BSD, of course after making a driver for it. So ...

Is anyone working on a driver for 386BSD for the Genius B105A? For
other (hand)scanners? It seems like a good idea to start a workgroup
if more people are interested. Let me know what you think, and let's
give 386BSD some eyes on wheels!

Bye!

	Steven Reiz (sreiz@cs.vu.nl)