Hi Baltazar!
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alan Baltazar wrote:
> I'm new at developing scanner drivers for linux. Could anyone tell me
> how to get started on developing one? In other words, do I need to get
> any specs from the company that made the scanner? Or is it just using
> one of the other scanner drivers as a template and tweaking it until the
> scanner works right?
You should print out the SANE standard document and read it carefully to
know how things are meant to work. Then I think the best solution is to
look at a well designed driver (e.g. the umax one) and see how it's
implemented.
Robert
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