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Sent from my iPhone On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Jörg Knochen <[email protected]> wrote: > Great! > > So now I have to look into wireshark. As far as I can see, it writes a lot of > different file formats. Which one would be preferable? > > Thanks, > Jörg > > > On 25 Jun 2014, at 14:32, m. allan noah <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]
