[sane-devel] Acer Scanwit 2740S Support?

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi

> I recently acquired an Acer Scanwit 2740S film scanner, a SCSI-based unit,
> that has been running very happily under Windows 98SE.  Having now had the
> experience of SuSE 7.3, I would very much like to get this scanner working
> under Linux.
>
> Naturally, the list of Acer scanners supported does not include the Scanwit
> 2740S. Are there any plans to support it?

Not that I know of - it would be nice though, but lacking documentation and 
the scanner itself makes it a rather hard task...

You may try to get it to work with the snapscan backend by including the SCSI 
ID string in snapscan.h, around line 110. Since there's no implementation for 
film transport etc. the most it could possibly do is to scan an image, if 
anything at all. But there's no guaranty that the scanner uses the same 
command set - you may even damage it, so keep your thumb on the power button.

The easy way to get your scanner working with Linux is vuescan 
(http://www.hamrick.com), a commercial product which offers some special 
features for film scanners.

Regards,

Oliver