Re: How to support a scanner without documentation

From: David Fox (dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 09:24:49 PDT

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    Henning Meier-Geinitz <hmg-ml@gmx.de> writes:

    > The Problem:
    > I have a Scanner supplied with a MS Windows driver and want to
    > support it by a SANE backend. I need to know the SCSI commands and
    > buffers the driver sends to the scanner (and the scanner's response).
    > The same goes for USB and parallel port scanners.

    If your scanner works under Vuescan (from www.hamrick.com) you can use
    the "Create Logfile" option to record all the scsi commands. This
    technique was used by Andreas Rick to develop the Nikon LS-2000 back
    end. It may only work for film scanners. 

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