On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Dan Scott <danieljamesscott at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
there have been a couple discussions on this list in the past few years from folks who were writing sane backends for handheld scanners, but we never saw any code. i suppose you could try to comb the archives and email them. >> 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. any chance there is an FCC ID on it- that is usually enough to find them. > It's a shame there's no "standard" for serial port scanners! Would > avoid a lot of work. most manufactures (mistakenly) dont see your avoiding work as a selling point. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"