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nahoj666
Scanner as input
Jun 27th, 2005, 2:17pm  
Hello and thanx for the previous answer!

I'm working on an augmented card game where I'm going to use a scanner. Until today, I've used the scanner to scan the game-board, save the image to the computer and then analyze the image with processing software presenting the output.

My question is if anyone know if it is possible to control the scanner directly from processing, scanning the game-board and use the data directly in processing.

Regards, Johan.
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Markavian
Re: Scanner as input
Reply #1 - Jun 27th, 2005, 3:15pm  
For that you'd have to look at the programing API spec for your scanner to see if its possible to send the scanner messages via Java - thats a tough one I'm not sure where to begin.

You may make more process with a webcam - and then using the webcam/video plugin for processing. Just a suggsetion.
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rgovostes
Re: Scanner as input
Reply #2 - Jun 27th, 2005, 10:23pm  
You could figure out how to automate the scanning process with another programming language and just have Processing initiate the automation and then read in the resulting JPEG image.
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