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The scanner is attached to the machine 'dunebuggy' in room 314, and
is an Epson color flatbed scanner with 2400x4800dpi resolution.
Use xsane to operate the scanner.
An old scanner tutorial is available in the MCIM pages, but some command details have changed.
Getting images
The Math Department has a 2MP digital camera,
if you'd like to use it for University related projects.
Film rolls can be digitized and burnt to CD for less than $20 at many film developers.
A flatbed scanner is available in Vincent Hall 314.
Scanning Images with xsane
Keep in mind that quotas do apply for saving in your home directory so
plan ahead before scanning a large or resolute image. It is possible
also to save the image in /var/tmp. We recommend that if you are going to
save in the /var/tmp directory, that you make a subdirectory to avoid conflicts
with other users.
- Put the scan object on the scan bed.
- Start the scanning software
$ cd ~
$ xsane
- Accept the license if you want to use xsane.
- Four windows should open: preview, main, histogram, standard options.
- Acquire a preview image.
Click the "Acquire preview" button in the preview window.
The scanner head will whir back and forth for less than a minute.
- Select the region to scan in detail.
Click and drag a rectangular region in the scan preview.
Whatever you want to scan, it can be enclosed in a rectangular box.
To tell the software about what the region is, click in the lower left corner, hold the mouse button down and drag to the upper right corner. Lift up on the mouse button.
- Click the "Scan" button in the main xsane window.
The scanner head will whir back and forth.
A window title "Viewer" will open with the scanned region.
- Save the image.
In the "Viewer" window, select the file menu and click on the "Save Image" menu entry.
If the image is text, xsane can also to convert it to text using optical character recognition (OCR).
Images can be viewed with web browsers, the desktop file browser, and applications like "eog" or "gthumb".
Editing an image can be done with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (Gimp).
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