Kodak 9500 manual About this guide

About this guide

This Integrator’s Guide provides the information need ed to use the Kodak Digital Science Document Scanner 9500 .

You should be familiar with the operation of the scanner. If you are not, refer the Appendix B, Reference Materials for a complete listing of available publications.

In addition to this information, the Integrator’s Guide contains the following chapters:

∙Chapter 2, Scanning Concepts, provides an overview of the scanning process.

∙Chapter 3, Image Headers, provides an overview of the information generated during the scanning process.

∙Chapter 4, Scanner-host Communications, describes the communications between the scanner and the host system.

∙Chapter 5, The SCSI Interface, describes the SCSI bus, SCSI commands, SCSI status and message responses and SCSI conformance.

∙Chapter 6, Scanner-unique Commands, describes the commands used to control the scanner from the host computer.

∙Chapter 7, The Diagnostic Interface (J45/COIN3), describes the communications between the scanner and an RS-232 terminal that can be used as an interface to receive diagnostic information.

∙Appendix A, Glossary, provides a list of commonly used terms and definitions pertaining to the scanning environment.

∙Appendix B, Reference Materials, provides a list of other available publications from Kodak supporting the Document Scanner 9500.

∙Appendix C, Assigning Image Addresses, defines the fields required for a valid image address.

∙Appendix D, Image Processing Parameter Defaults, provides default parameter values and recommended image processing parameters.

∙Appendix E, Image Processing, provides an overview of the image processing capabilities of the scanner /microimager, which are controlled by the host computer and methods for evaluating digitally scanned images.