[olug] Linux Scanner

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Wed Apr 26 14:53:08 UTC 2006


You could use an HP Officejet with http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/

I've used this in the past with scanning on the network using a  
jetdirect box attached to the printer.


Quoting Todd Christopher Hamilton <netarttodd at gmail.com>:

> I am putting together a Linux based document imaging workstation where
> the workstation scans a document, the user assigns a few indexing
> attributes to the document and the document then moves on for review by
> other users.  The image is then attached to a person's (patient) record
> and called up later as needed.
>
> Is anyone doing this now?  What would you recommend for a scanner?  Is
> there an open source project already accomplishing this?  I expect to
> scan around 100 8.5-11 documents a day.
>
> Thanks for your advise.
>
>
> Todd Christopher Hamilton
> (402) 660-2787
>
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> Nick Veys wrote:
>> If you had that file owned by the web server process owner, you could
>> chmod 400 the file and it should work, and be pretty safe.
>>
>> On 4/24/06, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on a multi-user Linux system running PHP and MySQL.
>>>
>>> Whenever I do an SQL query, I include a file just under the web   
>>> root w/the MySQL username and password.
>>>
>>> Even though it's under the web root, I have to keep this file's   
>>> permission at 644 permissions, or else I get 'permission
>>> denied'.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something here?  I definately don't want this file   
>>> readable by 'other'.
>>>
>>> Any advice for the correct approach to this would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Eric Pierce
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