Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
>
thanks again.
- Alan
> Hi,
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes, this would be the best and easiest way. You may try to listen to the
> Windows driver (e.g. with WINE) or disassemble the Windows driver but this
> will be very hard and I think it's not worth the work.
>
> > Or is it just using
> > one of the other scanner drivers as a template and tweaking it until the
> > scanner works right?
>
> If your scanner is very similar to one for that a backend exists, this may
> work.
>
> Bye,
> Henning
>
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