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Posted 09 March 2013 - 08:12 AM
Have a new peripheral called "Scanner", You place printed pages in it, and it will scan the pages. Each line will go into an array.
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Printed Page Scanners
Started by UMayBleed, 09 March 2013 - 07:12 AM
451 posts
The left part of this post
Posted 09 March 2013 - 08:23 AM
There is a peripheral that do this
124 posts
Posted 09 March 2013 - 09:30 AM
I am quite surprised this isn't in the mod already. Support.
1243 posts
Indiana, United States
Posted 09 March 2013 - 10:36 AM
Yes.But can it read pages from ComputerCraft?
16 posts
Posted 17 March 2013 - 01:51 PM
I support this being included stock. It would allow faxing.
436 posts
Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:42 PM
Faxing is almost useless, though. Unless it can import written books and maps. Or, I suppose if there was a typewriter peripheral to go with it, maybe.
I've seen this suggestion before, somewhere, and I even made a few posts on it. I'd link to it, but I think the mod.s would hate me for it. So I'll reiterate: QR codes would be much more useful. Maybe make a shop where you have to pick up a bar code from a chest or item frame to put said item into your "cart".
Basically, what I'm getting at is that, for the cost, just having a scanner pull in printed pages is less useful than just putting it on a floppy. Importing a map, though, that would be fun. Pull in a map, have it display on a giant gold monitor. . . I'm salivating now, apparently.
I've seen this suggestion before, somewhere, and I even made a few posts on it. I'd link to it, but I think the mod.s would hate me for it. So I'll reiterate: QR codes would be much more useful. Maybe make a shop where you have to pick up a bar code from a chest or item frame to put said item into your "cart".
Basically, what I'm getting at is that, for the cost, just having a scanner pull in printed pages is less useful than just putting it on a floppy. Importing a map, though, that would be fun. Pull in a map, have it display on a giant gold monitor. . . I'm salivating now, apparently.
1511 posts
Pennsylvania
Posted 17 March 2013 - 07:31 PM
There is no need to fax when we have RednetI support this being included stock. It would allow faxing.
997 posts
Wellington, New Zealand
Posted 18 March 2013 - 12:43 AM
The same could be said about disks.
169 posts
Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:16 AM
I disagree with anyone who says faxing would be useless. Well, I don't disagree. It would be useless for the most part. But, to be fair, this is a video game. Everything about it is technically useless. :P/>
But faxing would be fun. Plus, it would be a new peripheral to play with. And you have to assume that those printers are getting lonely with no one to play with, right?
But faxing would be fun. Plus, it would be a new peripheral to play with. And you have to assume that those printers are getting lonely with no one to play with, right?
16 posts
Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:26 PM
For some roleplay servers it'd be useful, because towns might want to keep hard copy records, etc in a library of who lives in towns, what wireless frequencies people are registered with, etc. I dunno, let your imagination flow :D/>. My point is, is that if printers exist, then there should be no reason why the opposite shouldn't.
997 posts
Wellington, New Zealand
Posted 20 March 2013 - 02:11 PM
The reason is that it takes effort to write.
1029 posts
Missouri, United States, America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe 42B, Life Street, Multiverse, 4th Dimension
Posted 20 June 2013 - 06:47 PM
I support. Scanners should be added, and they should also be able to scan Vanilla books so we can write on the go! :)/>
128 posts
Holland
Posted 21 June 2013 - 11:36 AM
that would be awesome with the upcoming PDAs, making the PDA the only "computer" that is able to scan QR codes. you could create a shortcut for programs in your base to run.–snip–
I've seen this suggestion before, somewhere, and I even made a few posts on it. I'd link to it, but I think the mods would hate me for it. So I'll reiterate: QR codes would be much more useful. Maybe make a shop where you have to pick up a bar code from a chest or item frame to put said item into your "cart".
–snip–
8543 posts
Posted 21 June 2013 - 12:45 PM
Necromancy is bad
You seem to have forgotten that you're on thin ice around here and that we don't like backseat moderation, which this is treading dangerously close to.
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Posted 03 July 2013 - 09:55 PM
I support this idea as well, if only for the ability to make my vanilla books easier to copy… I have to get permission from the mods on my server to use creative and itemframes to duplicate my books. A scanner which stores a vanilla (SIGNED) book as a text file would be very useful.
