[sane-devel] how to develop new backend

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sat, 3 May 2003 13:05:20 +0200


Hi,

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:25:25AM +0200, ludovic.smadja@libertysurf.fr wrote:
> I'm a french user of an HP scanjet 3570c and I want to use it under
> linux. actually I must have a windows only for the scanner, awfull
> !!.
> 
> But I've seen that there are no backend for this scanner.
> 
> I've some knowlegde in programming and I want to know how to develop
> a backend for sane for my scanner.
> 
> Could you help or send to me a HOW-to or a document explaining how to
> develop a sane backend ?

See http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/unsupported.html for some
links.

Someone is already working on this series of scanners. Please contact
him and try to work together:
http://www.cscs.ch/~tack/hp3530.html

See also:
http://sane.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=hewlett-packard&model=35&bus=usb

If you have any new information or test programs et., please keep us
informed.

Bye,
  Henning