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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Scanning and adding to the patients' document archive
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Scanning and adding to the patients' document archive |
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Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:39:17 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:03:00PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> In the first of the above two cases, if the scanner is not next to the user,
> the user will need to go for a walk, hope no job is already pending, insert
> the paper, and hope no-one else prematurely activates the scanner. In this
> case, the image could be directly imported into GNUmed without having to have
> separately saved and then (somewhere on a fileshare) browsed around to select
> the file to import.
We surely won't try to make up for lack of hardware by
extending GNUmed.
> gscan2pdf (perl) but I am not sure whether:
> (a) it can be easily invoked from within GNUmed and
If someone comes along who uses it, sure, no problem.
> (b) having been the controller of SANE, it can pass control of an
> image-in-memory to GNUmed
With XSane we use pass-by-filename, not in-memory, so no
problem. Same with any other scanner GUI that produces files
(which wouldn't ?)
Karsten
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