About this guide
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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:
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Chapter 2, Scanning Concepts , provides an overview of the
scanning process.
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Chapter 3, Image Headers, provides an overview of the
information generated during the scanning process.
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Chapter 4, Scanner-host Communications , describes the
communications between the scanner and the host system.
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Chapter 5, The SCSI Interface , describes the SCSI bus, SCSI
commands, SCSI status and message responses and SCSI
conformance.
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Chapter 6, Scanner-unique Commands, describes the
commands used to control the scanner from the host
computer.
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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.
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Appendix A, Glossary , provides a list of commonly used terms
and definitions pertaining to the scanning environment.
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Appendix B, Reference Materials, provides a list of other
available publications from Kodak supporting the Document
Scanner 9500.
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Appendix C, Assigning Image Addresses, defines the fields
required for a valid image address.
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Appendix D, Image Processing Parameter Defaults , provides
default parameter values and recommended image processing
parameters.
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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.
A-61124 March 1999