Dear developers I've got an obscure scanner which I really need to get working and I'm prepared to get my hands dirty but I can't find much documentation.
Any tips/pointers would be very helpful. It's a Vidar Diagnostic Pro digitizer -- used in radiology to scan X-rays from old radiographic film. As you can imagine, it's quite a niche product. Output: # dmesg [ 179.813929] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 6 [ 181.783329] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd [ 181.933595] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0c58, idProduct=0100 [ 181.933599] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 181.933602] usb 1-2: Product: VIDAR Film Digitizer [ 181.933605] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: VIDAR [ 181.933607] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 300000 ~ # sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c58 [VIDAR], product=0x0100 [VIDAR Film Digitizer]) at libusb:001:007 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. unfortunately it is not listed on # scanimage -L If I make any progress (with or without help), I would like to submit my work back to the project. I have some experience in C and Python and am prepared to learn as needed. The alternative is a very expensive proprietary closed source vendor solution with unreliable support and a poor security update record. Best wishes Mark -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org