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Novell Announces Hewlett-Packard Scanning Functionality For AppWare New AppWare Loadable Module From HP Allows Developers To Design Image-Enabled Applications MONTEREY, CA -- July 11, 1995 -- At Hewlett-Packard's Developer Conference, held here this week, Novell, Inc. announced the development by Hewlett-Packard of an AppWare Loadable Module (ALM) for HP ScanJet scanners. The HP ScanJet ALM is a robust component software part that provides AppWare developers with quick, easy, and flexible access to the HP ScanJet family of scanners. The 250 HP peripheral developers attending the conference were among the first to be introduced to the wide range of opportunities this ALM presents for developers building scanning-enabled applications. "The ScanJet ALM means a much broader range of developers will be able to quickly and easily build image-centric applications to benefit corporate customers," said John Lumb, ScanJet Third Party Marketing Manager for HP's Greeley Hardcopy Division. "In some instances, development of the image engine can be cut from two months to two days with the ScanJet ALM." The Scanner Control Language (SCL)--the programming code for the HP ScanJets--is fully exposed in the ScanJet ALM. As a result, developers can access SCL with a fully visual tool and utilize scanning features such as color, resolution, scaling, brightness and contrast in their application without having to understand the complexities of SCL. The ScanJet ALM delivers black and white, dithered, 256 level grayscale and 24-bit color data. "Developers using this ALM and AppWare can deliver solutions that make the scanner a common input device for their desktop or network-based applications," said Ed Firmage, director of marketing for Novell's NetWare Tools Division. "We expect scanners to become as integral to the end users' work environment as the CD ROM is today." The ScanJet ALM will better serve the unique needs of the corporate customer; for example, by giving them the ability to rapidly scan pertinent data from custom forms, such as airbills. In addition, this ALM facilitates the development of applications that allow customers to capture and transform a printed image including a logo, signature, text or photograph into a virtual image. "As scanners become more pervasive throughout the enterprise, corporate and home office users will find that image aware applications are a powerful tool for document creation, management and communication," said Glen Lowry, president of Alta Technology in Salt Lake City. "AppWare is the tool that allows disparate technologies like scanning, character recognition and other imaging functions to be integrated with business applications efficiently to form solid solutions for real business needs." Alta Technology--a supplier of imaging hardware and software products--is an early beta developer that plans to use the HP ScanJet ALM in an Alta Imaging product offering to be available later this summer. Designed for corporate developers, MIS, integrators, and others involved in building horizontal, vertical and business-specific applications, AppWare is a high-level (5GL) component-based visual tool for developing Macintosh and MS Windows applications. AppWare's native components known as AppWare Loadable Modules or ALMs are "programmed" by linking them together visually on the screen, as in a flow chart. The resulting project is then compiled as a double-clickable application (.exe). The AppWare development tool is a key element in Novell's long-term, company-wide component software strategy; providing an infrastructure of tools and components that facilitate network application development. The ScanJet ALM will be available this month at no charge. Information on obtaining the ALM can be accessed through the following AppWare and HP channels:
In addition, the ScanJet ALM will be included with the next release of Novell AppWare scheduled for late #95.
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