"Sujeewa Raj" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi,
Hi, Better keep this on list, for there are more people that may be able to help. > Thank you both for the details. I found many helpful documents in doc folder > and also in sane project web site. > Unfortunately my development environment won't allow me using linux for client > end. Maybe I should explain my requirement more specifically. > I have a dedicated linux PC connected to a epson 10000XL scanner in a TCP/IP > network lan. Other PCs (running Windows XP) want to operate the scanner via > the network. I'm using .Net C# to write a GUI/frontend for the prupose. My > program would be collecting user actions thru windows forms and generating the > corresponding TCP messages to the saned server. Unfortunately, I'm struggling > to find what those messages are. > I would be grateful, if you can help me in finding out the messages that I can > send to saned TCP server. Not that I have any experience with this, but I guess you could "just" port the SANE net backend to Windows .Net C#. Chapter 5 of the SANE spec should be helpful. Hope this helps, > Best Regards, > FF > > > On 9/8/06, Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Sujeewa Raj" <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on Epson 10000XL scanner connected to > linux thru sane (and I'm new > to the world of sane). I want to > operate it over TCP/IP. > As in connect the scanner directly to the network and use it???If > that is the case, you may be interested in the unofficial epson2 > backend that Alessandro Zummo posted to the list a while ago.??For > details, > > ??http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015986.html > > ??http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015969.html > > I do not know for sure whether the AcuLaser CX11NF and the 10000XL > speak the same protocol, but I'd guess they do. > > I downloaded the sane package and installed it. There is a > frontend > called saned which provides a TCP server for this > purpose. So I'm > writing the correspoding Client programme to > connect to Saned TCP > Server.??I would like to know the messages > that I'm suppossed to > send to Saned TCP Server. Also any other > help/known issues regarding > saned. > If you just want to make the device available via a "dedicated" scan > server (scanner connected to a PC that allows scanning from other > PCs) you can use any proper SANE frontend using the net backend. > > Secondly, how to get the documentation of Sane in general. I > > followed the tutorial in the sane-project.org site. It states that > > the overall package of sane comes with lots of documentation, which > > I'm struggling to find. Some help from you would be > great.??Thanking > in advance, FF > The documentation is also up on the website.??See > ??http://sane.alioth.debian.org/docs.html > If you have the sane-backends (developer?) package installed, check > below its doc/ directory or start with a simple `man sane`.??If you > have the source code, everything is below doc/ in "source" format. > You may want to `./configure && make` first to get something more > readable. > Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen??????????????????????????EPSON > AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962?????????? sign up > at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 > EB97??976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib!?????? -- I hack, > therefore I am --?????????????? LPIC-2 > > > -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
