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From: efm@sylvia.tummy.com (Evelyn Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: COMMERCIAL: XVScan 1.30 ScanJet scanning software Released
Date: 1 Jul 96 02:36:58 GMT
Organization: Probe Technology Internet Services
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For Immediate Release 1996-06-30

Scanning Software for ScanJets under HP-UX, Linux and FreeBSD

tummy.com, ltd. is announcing XVScan Version 1.30, which adds user 
configurable scanning defaults and easier installation under HP-UX 10.x 
to the interactive X11 scanning and image manipulation program XVScan.

XVScan works under HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, Linux and FreeBSD with HP ScanJet 
series SCSI scanners. It also works with HP ScanJet Plus parallel scanners 
under Linux. XVscan is based on xv, image manipulation software for X
Windows.  It handles 24-bit color, 8-bit greyscale and 1-bit monochrome
images.

Version 1.30 of XVScan now uses version 6a of the Independent JPEG Group's 
library.  XVScan supports many image formats including GIF, JPEG, 
TIFF (compressed and uncompressed), PostScript (requires ghostscript),  
PBM/PGM/PPM (raw and ascii), X11 Bitmap, XPM (X PixMap), Sun Rasterfile, 
BMP, IRIS Rasterfile, Targa (24-bit), and  FITS (greyscale).

The addition of the new command-line scanning utility "sjscan" allows
full control of the scanner and Auto Document Feeder to provide unattended
batch scanning of up to 50 pages.

Also included in this release are numerous updates to the ScanJet API
which allows other applications to control an HP ScanJet scanner.
The API is available under a separate licence.

The list price for XVScan is $50 for ftp or email delivery. It is also 
available on 3.5" floppies or 4mm DAT tape for an additional $15 in the 
United States or $25 internationally.

Contact tummy.com, ltd, phone: (402) 344-4426, fax: (402) 341-7119,
URL: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan, email: xvscan@tummy.com