Control flatbed scanner

zzspectrez has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anyone had any luck/experience interfacing with a flatbed scanner using perl?

I'm looking for something that would work with windows, perhaps twain.

The only thing I have been able to find is Win32::Scanner::EZTWAIN which unfortunately needs an external dll and the documentation mentions it is buggy.

Any pointers?

zzSPECTREz

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Re: Control flatbed scanner by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on Aug 14, 2005 at 06:31 UTC
Check out the SANE project at http://www.sane-project.org. It has backends for many different platforms and a whole lot of frontend utilities too. I'm not sure if they have a Perl interface, but they have command-line utilities, and you can sure use Perl to drive those! FYI, using TWAIN is like shooting at a moving target. Yeah, there's a standard, but it's reasonably loose, and not all TWAIN drivers have all the features you'd like them to have. I'm fighting with my own battles with TWAIN in another development environment. . . Good luck! MrCromeDome	[reply]
Re^2: Control flatbed scanner by zzspectrez (Hermit) on Aug 14, 2005 at 22:48 UTC
Ok, this looks promising. It looks like their is minimal support for compiling sane under CYGWIN for windows. Currently, the compile fails due to lack of libusb. So I found a port of libusb-win32 but it says it doesnt support CYGWIN. :( Google searches show some sucess with getting the above to work together, so I will keep trying. If I get it working, I will come back with an update. Have you by chance got sane working under windows with a usb scanner? *zzSPECTREz*	[reply]
Re^3: Control flatbed scanner by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on Aug 15, 2005 at 14:09 UTC
Unfortunately, no. It's been a while since I've had occasion to play with SANE, but I really enjoyed working with it when I did. My Windows experiences with TWAIN have all involved proprietary drivers and managers :( Given some problems my current project is facing, I might have to change that. Good luck :) Please do post an update when you get a chance. MrCromeDome	[reply]