HP Scanning made a bit easier?
HP Scanning made a bit easier?
- Subject: HP Scanning made a bit easier?
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:22:04 -0600
Title: HP Scanning made a bit easier?
This is not an off-the-shelf script, it probably will require
some work for your own individual circumstances...:
http://www.davidcrowe.ca/AppleScript/HP Scan Control.scpt.zip
I could never get the HP-supplied software to work properly with
my HP all-in-one scanner/fax/colour printer. This meant that scanning
only worked through a browser interface with far too many clicks. And
even then PDF files came off as individual pages.
Looking at the _javascript_ I realized that all you need to get the
scanner to work is to talk to the built in http server, through a
simple URL.
Note that the script uses Acrobat 6 (5 also works, and presumably
7) to stitch the pages together. It also uses Acrobat to show you a
thumbnail of the scan as the pages are collected.
This is the critical function, just for illustration:
-- DownloadScannedPage
on DownloadScannedPage(FileName,
PageNumber)
tell application "URL
Access Scripting"
set
theURL
to Scanner_URL &
"notused.pdf" & "?type="
& TypeCode & "&fmt="
& FormatCode
with timeout
of 240
seconds
try
download
theURL to file FileName
on
error errmsg
activate
display
dialog "Access to URL <" & theURL &
"> for page
#" & PageNumber &
" failed." & return &
errmsg
return (false)
end
try
end
timeout
end tell
return (true)
end DownloadScannedPage
"TypeCode" is "3" for color, for example, and
FormatCode is "3" for a PDF file (the only type that the
script currently supports).
This script works with my psc 2510, but might work, perhaps with
some minor tweaks, with other HP models.
Basically it allows you to scan multi-page documents as single
PDF files, and allows the scanning of multiple documents. The
"Quick Scan" feature omits the prompt between pages,
basically you have to put the next page on while the scanner bulb is
returning to its home position. This saves quite a bit of time,
especially for black and white scans.
Anyway, feel free to make use of it, and let me know if you find
any bugs or make any useful enhancements.
- David Crowe
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