<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hey Guys,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Are you aware of any work in progress to add open sourced support to Brother scanners? </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have a Brother DCP-1602 multifuncional printer/scanner that I want be able to share using a raspberry Pi as a saned server. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It is my understanding that currently Brother only has Linux support through its closed-source proprietary backend driver that it is distributed only with x86 binaries. Even if there had distributed some old versions of the source code on the net, I was not able compile them to a functional results -- it seems to be quite incomplete. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So and I am willing to give a try in the writing of a portable open sourced backend for it -- or join an on going work. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Guilherme</div></div></body></html>