[ale] Accessing Brother scanner from Linux

[Jim Kinney]

I'm beginning to look at retirement. I'm on a top500 supercomputer project that the contract has another 8 years on. Not sure I have another 8 years I want to put in. Turning 60 in a few months and having much fun making enameled flowers and jewelry.

On June 20, 2022 1:45:20 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Even more excellent news.  Your "pdf join" comment got me searching and
>very quickly finding on my system:
>
>  tiffcp     Can concatenate single-page TIFF files into one TIFF file
>
>  tiff2pdf   Will convert a TIFF file into a PDF file
>
>Just what I need, though I haven't tried yet.
>
>The docs I'm copying are my Piper Arrow's logbooks, going back to 1973,
>before handing them to a mechanic for my Annual inspection in case he
>loses them.  I've been meaning to do this for 30 years.  I have a
>little
>more time now that I'm retired but still too much busyness.  Yes, it's
>possible for a programmer to retire.
>
>Bob
>
>On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Excellent news!
>> 
>> I've not done much multi page scanning. Vague memory of doing
>something in xsane, picking a base name and a folder and doing pdf scan
>then a pdf join?
>> I think I loaded the scan feeder and kicked it off from xsane. 
>> 
>> On June 20, 2022 11:37:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen
><transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
>> >Jim,
>> >
>> >Thanks VERY MUCH for that link!
>> >
>> >I discovered that I had installed older versions of that software
>years
>> >ago but it didn't work.
>> >
>> >Did RPM erase and then installed the latest version and then it
>still
>> >would not work.  It appeared to need a daemon running.
>> >
>> >It would say "Connecting to PC" and then time out.
>> >
>> >I think that, fumbling around, I started:
>> >
>> >  /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey-exe
>> >
>> >and then it worked like a champ ... other than creating a separate
>TIF
>> >file for each page of 50-200 page docs.
>> >
>> >ALE comes through again!
>> >
>> >Thanks again,
>> >Bob
>> >
>> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:00:32PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> >>
>>
>>https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all
>> >> 
>> >> On June 17, 2022 4:01:05 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> >wrote:
>> >> >I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother
>> >printer/scanner/Fax
>> >> >device to work with one of my
>> >> >older Linux systems.
>> >> >
>> >> >Brother model MFC-7360N.  (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has
>USB
>> >> >jack
>> >> >
>> >> >Linux systems (anyone will do):
>> >> >
>> >> >CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
>> >> >
>> >> >Slackware 14.2
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no
>> >shoes,
>> >> >to be fixed real soon now!)
>> >> >
>> >> >Bob Toxen
>> >> >transam at VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)
>> >> >bob at VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)
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