If either of you are near California, this could be a consulting opportunity that we'd be more then happy to contribute back to SANE. If not I can certainly provide anything you need. I do dabble a TINY bit in C but would take me a few months to get to a level sufficient to help out at all.
Tyler. On 4/7/05 10:21 AM, "m. allan noah" <[email protected]> wrote: > tyler, myself and oliver schirrmeister are maintaining the fujitsu > backend. the support for the fi series is unfortunately limited, i have > access to the 4x20 units, and oliver has at least touched one of the 5xxx > units. i work on a proprietary app that uses the 4120, and i am currently > re-writing it. once i have finished that, i will have a much better handle > on the quirks and may find time to apply them to sane. > > the 5110 has been reported to almost work on this list as of late, but i > am awaiting further info from the user. most of the other fi series units > are likely similar, other than the cheapest ones. > > if you have any C skills and would like to help out, it has been pretty > easy to make them at least basically function. if not, and you have a way > to give remote shell access or debug logs, i can do some updates to try > and make them work. lack of physical access is a problem. > > allan > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Tyler Hardison wrote: > >> Hello everyone. >> >> I'm working on a project to remove a proprietary scanning and document >> storage suite. Currently we use Fujitsu scanners, the 4097d and the fi-5750. >> Both work acceptably for our purposes in SANE currently. >> >> The fi-5750 is a little quirky, setting resolution when in lineart mode >> causes the scanner to "hang" resetting the device (and killing the SANE >> processes) clears this up. >> >> Ala: >> >> "Doctor it hurts when I do this." >> >> "Then don't do that." >> >> Also, setting resolution in other modes causes the image to "skew" at what >> appears to be a linear rate. I can provide samples if needed. >> >> My question is, given the quirkiness of the fi-5750 have I stumbled on a >> scanner that "works because it shares similarities with other units" or one >> that was being worked on? >> >> Also, what of the other fi5xxx series (which we'll be purchasing soon) could >> we expect the same results. Which are actually acceptable? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -- Tyler. >> >> sane-config --version >> 1.0.15 >> >> >> >> >>
