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Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is an open-source application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public domain. It is commonly used on Linux.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) developed the first ScanJet in the mid-1980s at their printer division in Boise, Idaho. [4] [5] The ScanJet was released in March 1987, [6] as a compliment to their LaserJet series, which was the first commercially successful line of laser printers ever released, [7] introduced in 1984 and also developed at Boise.
Linux portal; Free and open-source software portal; The HPLIP ("HP Linux Imaging and Printlng") project—initiated and led by HP Inc. (HP)—aims to ease Linux systems' ability to interact with HP's inkjet and laser printers with full printing, scanning, and faxing support.
Instead of using the scanner's true optical resolution, the only meaningful parameter, manufacturers like to refer to the interpolated resolution, which is much higher thanks to software interpolation. As of 2009, a high-end flatbed scanner can scan up to 5400 ppi and drum scanners have an optical resolution of between 3000 and 24000 ppi.
Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) is an industry standard interface for image scanning technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 (which became EMC Corporation's Captiva Software and later acquired by OpenText). [1] ISIS is an open standard for scanner control and a complete image-processing framework.
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The Mopria Alliance [1] is an association of printer and scanner manufacturers and producers of related software, that develops "universal standards and solutions for scan and print". [2] The alliance was formed in September 2013 by Canon, HP, Samsung, and Xerox.
Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...