Making an Applescript for my HP scanner/printer

Presumably there is a reason HP did this. Writing this script was easier than rewriting their application.

I'm guessing that what you really want is more flexibility during scanning.

Try looking at Silverfast. This is a great third party software that works with virtually all scanners.

http://www.silverfast.com/product/HP/572/en.html

 

I don't use Silverfast but they do have a great reputation. According to their site they do support OS X

http://www.silverfast.com/show/sysreq/en.html

However, I don't see your model supported.

1. Can you see the Applescript that is launched when you press the button on the scanner? If you double click it does it open in Script Editor? It's possible that they have supplied a compiled script. That means we can't see the code so we can't see what they are doing.

I guess this begs the question, how do you know it launches an AppleScript?

2. If you launch the HP software does it still talk to the scanner? Is there any reason it won't run?

3. If it runs and if you can see the code in the script it might be possible to write a script that will invoke the HP sofware.


Again, I'm suspicious that there is some problem here. If the software would run they would have used it. There was some reason it wouldn't run and their easy solution was to write a script invoking Preview.