Dear All I am refering to this message I found in the archives from Bernardo Kyotoku: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-November/015371.html
Just as Bernardo, I try to figure out a way to use the line-CCD from a used Canon LIDE 25 scanner as a measuring device to sense light intensities impinging the CCD-detector. The device works with the plustek backend. All the mechanics and the integrated lamp are of no use for this (or even disturbing) and I am afraid I will break the device by "de-installing" those parts manually, since the checking routines might fail in this case. I would very much appreciate if you could give me some hints where it might be promising to have a closer look in the plustek-backend-codes. If figured that some of the initialising routings are part of the plustek-usb modules as well as some of the "mechanical" routines. But I am a bit lost, since I am far from understanding, where which routine shakes hand with another. However, I have to admit, that my experiences in C and device programming are rather basic. (So I'd better not try this... But I want to learn it.) So, thanks in advance. Christoph
