Hi, 2008/7/30 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>: >> So I was hoping that I would be able to use sane to communicate with >> the scanner and work out what is happening. > > backwards. you have to work out what is happening, _before_ you write > the sane driver :)
Not quite. I was hoping that the scanner would already work with sane. :) at least partially. Then I could get the basic protocol from the code. > do you have windows drivers for the image scanning part? if so, i > would use a usb-serial converter and benoit's usb sniffer to get a > log, and see if you can extract the image data. No, unfortunately I have no documentation/driver other than this diagnostic application. I'm thinking I'll have to figure out the manufacturer and ask them for protocol documentation. It's a shame there's no "standard" for serial port scanners! Would avoid a lot of work. Thanks for your comments. Dan