In a message dated 11/24/2001 5:25:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > could you briefly explain how you learn to "talk" to a new > scanner in its "language"? Do you run through its software and have some > way of reading or logging the info that goes back and forth between the > computer and the scanner?
I use a program called "Bus Hound" to log the USB, SCSI and Firewire commands that are used to talk to scanners. I also often have documentation on a scanner's basic command set. The rest is just hard work decoding the commands that the vendor's software sends to the scanner. For instance, on the Nikon scanners, I changed the "analog gain" command, logged the commands from a scan, changed it again, logged the commands from another scan and then looked to see what fields in the commands changed. Regards, Ed Hamrick
