Hi Ralph,
On 05.10.19 at 09:54 Ralph Little wrote:
Hi devs,
Yesterday I won a canon lide 30 for 50p on eBay. I thought it would be fun to
play with, but it occurred to me that I don't know if, as a project, if we have
many scanner examples for testing and verifying regressions.
Its a bit difficult writing software for hardware that we do not possess. It is
also a bit scary making anything but trivial changes without hardware to retest on.
We have some open issues about the canoscan lide 220 but I don't know if any
member here actually possesses one of the scanners it being supposedly a gl848.
The LiDE30 uses definitely a LM9833 and so works with the Plustek backend. There
might be some issues with USB3 ports, but on a USB2 port the thingy should work.
Some of these machines, particularly some of the older ones can be picked up for
peanuts with a keen eye and a regular look on eBay, Craigslist and Gumtree. :D
Has anyone considered putting together a more official collection of
representative hardware for device dev work?
I once had a lot of LM983x based devices but gave up at a certain point. I still
have some of them (like the LiDE30)...
Regards,
Gerhard
