[sane-devel] CanoScan D1250U2

[m. allan noah]

you have a couple options:

1. attempt to dis-assemble the windows driver (pita)
2. open the scanner and see if any of the numbers on any of the chips 
sound like a supported scanner (fat chance)
3. get packet logs from scanner running on windows, and hope it uses a 
higher level protocol like scsi over the usb (pita, and fat chance :)

search on the sane mailing list archives for reverse engineering and 
backend writing, this gets discussed quite a bit.

allan

ps p.i.t.a. is short for pain-in-the-butt for all the non-native english 
speakers...

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Adalberto wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'd like to try and write a backend for this scanner, that I own; I've noticed
> that last year there was some talking about it on this list, but nothing came
> out of it.
> I'm an experienced C programmer on UNIX platforms, but have never written
> drivers and USB interfaces, so the thing that scares me the most about it is the
> lack of technical documentation about the protocol this scanner uses.
> Has anyone got any insight on where to start from?
> Thanks,
> Adalberto
> 
> 
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