The smaller kodak scanners historically were built by Avision. It is possible yours was too. We do have an Avision backend, which is worth investigating. Either way, you will need to get a USB trace of the scanner in action on a windows machine using Wireshark, to reverse engineer the protocol.
allan On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM Andre J. via sane-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently received a Kodak ScanMate i1150 scanner. I would like to use it > as a network scanner to feed my paperless document management system. > Unfortunately, I can't find this model anywhere on the lists, neither among > the supported nor the unsupported devices. I've already done some research: > There is a Linux driver on the Kodak website that is supposed to support > SANE. Unfortunately, it is only intended for x86(_64) architectures. I plan > to use an old RaspberryPi with ARM32. Now the question is how complicated > it would be to write my own backend driver or if there is someone who would > be willing to do this. I would also be willing to make a small contribution > for the next coffee! > > Cheers, > Andre > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
