Re: [sane-devel] New "SANE" driver, or sort of "Middleware"?

2022-02-03 Thread Mark Dm
Till, I appreciate your suggestions. I recognize your name from this and Printing Mail Lists. I know that you probably know well what you are talking about. The problem is you are talking over my head. In fact I gave up on putting anything on github because I am so stupid I do not understand it .

Re: [sane-devel] New "SANE" driver, or sort of "Middleware"?

2022-02-03 Thread Till Kamppeter
This form of scanner driver is not a SANE driver but a Scanner Application, an emulation of a driverless (in your case eSCL, other driverless protocols are WSD and IPP Scan) scanner by software, where the emulator communicates with the actual, physical scanner, advertises the presence of the

[sane-devel] New "SANE" driver, or sort of "Middleware"?

2022-02-03 Thread Mark Dm
Ok I have spent a few years making various versions of GUIs and tools for s400w based scanners which include Century CPS-A4WF, Halo Magic Scanner, ION AirCopy, ION AirCopy E-Post Edition, iScan Fly, Kaiser Baas WiFi Photo & Document Scanner, Mustek iScan Air / S400W, Transcription Patri Kun A4