No, you don't need more hardware than the scanner and the computer
(except a lot of patience...). You should read the documentation about
the SANE-Standard (available at www.mostang.com/sane) and you should
have a look at the pnm-backend. That is a kind of example-backend which
reads a pnm image instead of driving a scanner. If you understand how
it works, you know the basics about backends.
Try to find out what hardware is built into your scanner and if there
are similar devices that probably already have a backend.
Getting information about the protocol of the scanner is mostly the
biggest problem. If you are lucky the manufacturer releases some
information. Otherwise you have to snoop the windows driver.
Best wishes
Karsten Festag
Hi Pierre
Pierre Abbat schrieb:
> I asked this a couple of weeks ago and still don't have
> an answer.
>
> A friend of mine got a Memorex 6120P scanner and I'd like
> to write a back end.
> How do I do this? Do I need anything other than the
> scanner and a computer?
>
> phma
>
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