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[computercraftprogrammer]

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.

[FuuuAInfiniteLoop(F.A.I.L)]

There is a peripheral that do this

[ds84182]

But can it read pages from ComputerCraft?

[JJRcop]

I am quite surprised this isn't in the mod already. Support.

[Tiin57]

ds84182, on 09 March 2013 - 08:37 AM, said:

But can it read pages from ComputerCraft?

Yes.

[sophiamaster]

I support this being included stock. It would allow faxing.

[OmegaVest]

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.

[SuicidalSTDz]

sophiamaster, on 17 March 2013 - 01:51 PM, said:

I support this being included stock. It would allow faxing.

There is no need to fax when we have Rednet

[immibis]

The same could be said about disks.

[SadKingBilly]

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.

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?

[sophiamaster]

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 . My point is, is that if printers exist, then there should be no reason why the opposite shouldn't.

[immibis]

The reason is that it takes effort to write.

[Geforce Fan]

I support. Scanners should be added, and they should also be able to scan Vanilla books so we can write on the go!

[FuuuAInfiniteLoop(F.A.I.L)]

Necromancy is bad

[Jappards]

OmegaVest, on 17 March 2013 - 02:42 PM, said:

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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".
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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.

[Lyqyd]

FuuuAInfiniteLoop(F.A.I.L), on 21 June 2013 - 09:40 AM, said:

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.

[Ryltarr]

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.

[Cutecurtain]

I really like the idea!