[ale] Accessing Brother scanner from Linux

[Bob Toxen]

Even more excellent news.  Your "pdf join" comment got me searching and
very quickly finding on my system:

  tiffcp     Can concatenate single-page TIFF files into one TIFF file

  tiff2pdf   Will convert a TIFF file into a PDF file

Just what I need, though I haven't tried yet.

The docs I'm copying are my Piper Arrow's logbooks, going back to 1973,
before handing them to a mechanic for my Annual inspection in case he
loses them.  I've been meaning to do this for 30 years.  I have a little
more time now that I'm retired but still too much busyness.  Yes, it's
possible for a programmer to retire.

Bob

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Excellent news!
> 
> I've not done much multi page scanning. Vague memory of doing something in xsane, picking a base name and a folder and doing pdf scan then a pdf join?
> I think I loaded the scan feeder and kicked it off from xsane. 
> 
> On June 20, 2022 11:37:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> >Jim,
> >
> >Thanks VERY MUCH for that link!
> >
> >I discovered that I had installed older versions of that software years
> >ago but it didn't work.
> >
> >Did RPM erase and then installed the latest version and then it still
> >would not work.  It appeared to need a daemon running.
> >
> >It would say "Connecting to PC" and then time out.
> >
> >I think that, fumbling around, I started:
> >
> >  /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey-exe
> >
> >and then it worked like a champ ... other than creating a separate TIF
> >file for each page of 50-200 page docs.
> >
> >ALE comes through again!
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >Bob
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:00:32PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>
> >https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all
> >> 
> >> On June 17, 2022 4:01:05 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> >wrote:
> >> >I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother
> >printer/scanner/Fax
> >> >device to work with one of my
> >> >older Linux systems.
> >> >
> >> >Brother model MFC-7360N.  (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has USB
> >> >jack
> >> >
> >> >Linux systems (anyone will do):
> >> >
> >> >CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
> >> >
> >> >Slackware 14.2
> >> >
> >> >Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no
> >shoes,
> >> >to be fixed real soon now!)
> >> >
> >> >Bob Toxen
> >> >transam at VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)
> >> >bob at VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)
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