Hi Guilherme, [email protected] writes:
> Hey Guys, > Are you aware of any work in progress to add open sourced support to > Brother scanners? No, not really but a quick search on "Brother scanner" over at GitHub turned up a number of repositories. An equally quick scan of those hints at mostly wrappers around Brother's code. > I have a Brother DCP-1602 multifuncional printer/scanner that I want > be able to share using a raspberry Pi as a saned server. I saw a Python [project for the DCP-1610][1]. Might be of interest. [1]: https://github.com/Equidamoid/dcp1610 > It is my understanding that currently Brother only has Linux support > through its closed-source proprietary backend driver that it is > distributed only with x86 binaries. Even if there had distributed some > old versions of the source code on the net, I was not able compile > them to a functional results -- it seems to be quite incomplete. Last time I looked and IIRC, the source code that Brother puts out basically starts a separate process using a binary-only executable that is responsible for the device I/O. # ISTR that their "source" code was even GPL'd ... > So and I am willing to give a try in the writing of a portable open > sourced backend for it -- or join an on going work. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
