[sane-devel] Hello & Visioneer Onetouch 4400 USB Scanner

[Jaeger, Gerhard]

Hi,

I'm pretty shure, that the Visioneer 4400 does not contain a LM983x ASIC.
I checked some logs in spring this year, and there it turned out to be a
GeneSysLogic based device, at least containing a GL 640 bridge. The
ASIC is unknown to me, probably one of those E... ones - maybe Steven
Ellis knows more...

On Sonntag, 30. November 2003 01:53, Keith Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just joined the list because I use GNU/Linux and have one of the above
> scanners.
>
> I've been playing around with SANE trying to get it to work with the
> Plustek backend but had no joy.

see above.

> So it looks like there's no option but to start hacking at something.  As
> I've no programming experience of USB devices or scanners I consider myself
> eminently qualified (not) but I have been writing software of various types
> for the past 30 years and have a fair bit of C/C++ and Unix/Linux
> experience under my belt (obviously not enough or I wouldn't even be
> considering this :o) )

It should be enough to know how to write good C-programs, controlling
USB devices is not that complicated. The more complicated thing is
figuring out what to send and how to interpret the messages/commands
between scanner and your box...

>
> Before I start hassling manufacturers, etc, is anyone else writing a
> backend for this device?

Probably not :-(

Ciao,
  Gerhard