On 1/6/2025 5:45 PM, Joel wrote:
Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
The SANE project, one of the wonders of FOSS, is currently
on GitLab, and not that shit site GitHub:
https://gitlab.com/sane-project
I use SANE all the time to produce superior results for all
of my clients ($$$$$). In the right hands, like mine, SANE
beats the living fuck out of any commercial program.
C'mon, FOSS developers. Follow the lead of SANE. Move your
stuff off the junk GitHub and onto GitLab.
I purchase my own web resources and I don't require a third-party
repository. But if I ever decided to accept contributors I would,
without question or hesitation, use GitLab.
Fuck Microslop! Fuck GitHub!
How many months did it take you to get this software operational?
Feeb has posted his nutty scanner/printer methods before.
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SANE fully supports the HP6200C, and I mean FULLY.
The following script will scan a document in high res
grayscale, threshold to bi-tonal using the best parameters,
compress with the highly efficient JBIG2 algorithm, and
then produce a PDF.
Of course, you can archive the original high res grayscale
if desired, and do virtually any-fucking-thing else, by
a suitable adjustment of the script.
Step 1 -- discover all relevant scanner parameters with:
scanimage --help --device hp:libusb:major:minor
Step 2 -- program these into the bash script
Step 3 -- execute the bash script as follows:
doc2pdf.sh outputfile.pdf gamma major minor
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doc2pdf.sh for the HP6200C
===================================================
#! /bin/bash
# HP6200C
# scans to 12-bit 300dpi gray scale pgm
# doc2pdf.sh file.pdf gamma major minor
gamma=$2
outfile=$1
major=$3
minor=$4
scanimage -p -d hp:libusb:$major:$minor --format pnm --mode Gray --depth
12 \
--resolution 300 --speed="Normal" --output-8bit="no"\
--source Normal \
--custom-gamma="yes" \
--gamma-table `gamma4scanimage $gamma 0 255 255 255` \
| pamthreshold | pnmtopnm > ${outfile%.pdf}.pbm
jbig2 -s -p ${outfile%.pdf}.pbm > ${outfile%.pdf}.jb2
python pdf.py output > $outfile
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Notice Feeb makes everything much, much harder than it needs to be.
I'd say at least a full day to learn how to shell script and set options
and pipe data from/to scanimage, jbig2, pamthreshold and pnmtopnm. Of
course the liar will tell you he did it all in 15 minutes [1]
It's very likely the GUI-driven scanner software will produce a visually-identical .pdf document with a few mouse clicks.
[1] Feeb told me he wrote this C program in "less than 2 minutes":
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
int main()
{
int i, sins, rnd_index_1, rnd_index_2;
time_t t;
// define strings
char *sin[7] = {"lust","gluttony","greed","sloth","wrath","envy","pride"};
char *sinner[23] = {"DFS","Octavian","7","Melzzzzz","Fabian","Gohde","Kohlmann","Takuya","Ahlstrom","shitv","Greycloud","Marek","Desk
Rabbit","-hh","JED","Relf","wRonG","Sandman","sbd","Carroll","Tattoo","Bloaty","Dumb
Willie"};
int sinner_ptr[23];
char *organ[4] = {"heart","stomach","dick","peabrain"};
char *desc[4] = {"beautiful","nasty","wonderful","repulsive"};
// initialize RNG and index array
srand((unsigned) time(&t));
for(i=0; i<=22; i++) { sinner_ptr[i]=i; }
// main loop
for(sins=1; sins<=50; sins++)
{
// get first rnd index
rnd_index_1 = sinner_ptr[rand() % 23];
// swap index pointers
i=sinner_ptr[rnd_index_1]; sinner_ptr[rnd_index_1]=sinner_ptr[22]; sinner_ptr[22]=i;
// get second rnd index on reduced set
rnd_index_2 = sinner_ptr[rand() % 22];
// print all rnd strings
fprintf(stdout, "%d The %s %s holds in his %s for %s is a %s thing.\n",
sins, sin[rand() % 7], sinner[rnd_index_1], organ[rand() % 4], sinner[rnd_index_2], desc[rand() % 4]);
}
return(0);
} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What a liar. And it didn't work right, of course.
Before I forget: thanks for being the only poster besides me that bashes
that fraud.
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