[sane-devel] Proposal: Addition to SANE standard (vendor and scanner type strings)

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.
[...]
> Please add those I probably missed.

Avision

> As these updates don't need a change in sane/sane.h it can go into the
> current standard IMHO. As there is no real change in API, the version
> number would stay at 1.02.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning

"Major A" wrote:
> 
> There is one more: "Nikon". You will not find this string as a char*
> in either the coolscan or the coolscan2 backend because it is directly
> read from the INQUIRY data.

This is a good point! I do this, too. And when we only have
"Hewlett-Packard" I should add additional string parsing to convert
"hp" and "HP" (both are in use) into "Hewlett-Packard", right?

k33p h4ck1n6
  René

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