Re: Apple Scanner on a IIgs?

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <5r2r86$qf9$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <5r1d1l$n11@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
>Michael Elliott <cv985@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>>A flatbed scanner that is Apple, says only "Apple Scanner" on it, the
>>newer, platinum, Lserwriter II-type stle case, and it has
>>2 standard SCSI ports and what looks to be a serial port.
>>Will this work at all on a IIgs?
>
>   'Work' is a very relative term. Apparently the System 6.0 Golden
>Master CDROM has a small program that can talk to some Apple SCSI
>scanners, but it can only scan some stuff in and put it on the screen,
>no capabilities to save. 

(I'm unwrapping the shrinkwrap from my System 6 Golden Master CDROM for you
people!  I guess I'm glad I left this CD at work.  If anyone has a dirt cheap
dirt slow external CDROM drive they want to sell, email me.  I have like
*3* CDs I'll ever use on my GS, so I don't want to spend a bunch..
If it's *caddyless* I'd be even happier but I don't think any of the
"cruddy ones" that nobody wants anymore are caddyless.)

Though I see no documentation or anything, there's actually *source code*
for the scanner program on this CD.  (There may be documentation on the
ProDOS partition, but Apple's lame mac CD drivers only read the first
partition, in this case an HFS partition.)

So you could get this source code and modify it to save to disk.
I presume you can somehow massage the picture into whatever format that the 
character recognition software (InWords?) expects.
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