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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP Scanner
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:23:40 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>

Andreas Klemm wrote:

> Look into the ports collection.
> graphics/hpscan
> 
> It has been tested on the HP ScanJet 3C and 4A, and was
> written for the HP ScanJet IIcx, so I suspect it will work with all 
> newer HP scanners without modifications.

I can confirm that it works just great with the newer HP ScanJet 4p.
I modified it to spit out jpeg files instead of ppm files (which were
>100Mb apiece in many cases) and it works just great.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project