Stefan Rieken wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a scantak-12p, running on windows. And YES I know that both the
> scantak thingy and windows are not supported (-:X:-)
>
> However the windows is my father's and so is the scanner, I am just the
> parasite. Wat I would like to set up (ideal case) is: windows serving
> the scanner so that I can command it on Linux through the network.
>
If I understand it right: linux with GUI, scanner on windows:
Although the TWAIN interface defines a GUI-less mode,
most TWAIN-scanner drivers do not work with their own GUI disabled.
So I think it will not work.
>
> So I wonder: how hard is it to make a windows "daemon", a network
> server, for SANE? (And by that way, could SANE easily be ported to
> windows when using the GTK+ ports that are available for windows, or is
> there something more platform-independent next to the GUI?)
>
> Could such a SANE daemon exploit the already available and general TWAIN
> interface? (I guess not, but it would be so cool because it would enable
> you to serve almost any scanner from windows.)
>
if gtk works and xsane/xscanimage do run on windows it would at
first be possible to run the GUI on windows and scan with a scanner
that is connected on a unix machine.
As far as I have in my mind the sane-net backend already does work
on Windows - (correct?)
To use a scanner on a windows machine via SANE the scsi interface of sane
has to be checked/extended. There already is ASPI support for OS/2 so
it should not be too hard to add ASPI support for Win.
Bye
Oliver
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