plustek: adding support for additional lm983x based scanners
Subject:
Re: adding support for additional lm983x based scanners
From:
Gene Heskett ####@####.####
Date:
30 Jan 2002 04:07:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20020130035801551.AAA333@mail.iolinc.net@there>
On Monday 28 January 2002 12:55 pm, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
[and I snipped]
This Epson 1250U is turning into a bit of a pain. In terms of
hacking up an improvement, I'm blowing it big time.
Currently I can do the motions of a preview scan IF I don't
select much more than the default 50dpi. The only recovered data
is in the red channel, and I can trade the channel orders around
(rgb,bgr,rbg, etc) with absolutely no effect on the recovered
data. What little data there is stays in the red, with greeen
and blue being effectively a flat, 100% field except for a couple
of horizontal streaks in the upper 1/4 of the scan. It looks to
be very badly bleached.
It also doesn't shut the lamp off at quitting time, and only
turns it on about 2 or 3 seconds before it moves out of what I
assume is the calibrate position, many seconds after clicking the
scan start button.
I have the cd that came with it, but not being a winderz user, I
have no idea how to go about accessing the info that may or may
not be on the cd in the form of the various .cab, .dll, .exe, and
.inf files. Looking at them with fr's viewer they look like just
so much machine code gibberish, probably as they are in a
compressed format.
I tried to fire up wine to run whats on the cd, but although I
think I have wine in a runnable state (who really knows about
wine, its as big a puzzle to me as winderz), its bitching about a
lot of missing fonts yet, and finally, after about 2 minutes of
that, exits telling me the stuff on the cd I pointed it at isn't
executable, like "setup.exe"... Winderz, what a kludge.
Are there any good linux tools to take one of these things apart
and make readable .ini or .txt files out of whatever compression
format billies children are using this week? It sure seems to me
there ought to be some clues somewhere in that 50 megs of freebie
stuff.
--
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M
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