This looks like a fun project! The complexity of a driver is often inversely proportional to the cost of the scanner. Since this is not a commodity machine, I'm not sure that rule applies. Take a wireshark dump of the smallest scan possible, and put it up on the web somewhere.
allan On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Jörg Knochen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I’m the administrator of a small dentists office. The IT is Macintosh based, > with a FreeNAS Server, with one exeption: the workstation used for XRay > operation has to run windows because of ONE missing twain driver for OS X. > > The scanner is the following model: > > http://www.duerrdental.com/en/products/imaging/vistascan-image-plate-scanner/vistascan-mini-plus/?changeLang=1 > > It can be attached by USB, but in our case it uses a network connection over > IP. > > If i could sniff this network connection and record the communication between > the twain driver and the scanner - is there anyone out there willing to help > me write a sane driver? The manufacturer has no interest so far in supporting > anything but windows. > > Another Idea: wouldn’t it be possible to install the original Twain driver > into a wine bottle and write a sane driver which can pass through the twain > commands from the bottle to a native interface on the unix side? This would > be a GREAT workaround, too. > > Thanks for your time, > Jörg-Ch. Knochen > > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
