[sane-devel] Technical infos about reverse engineering

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:13:00 +0100


Hi,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:53:38PM +0100, Julien TIERNY wrote:
> Maybe it could be a good point to write a SANE "official" how-to about the 
> reverse engineering

Some tips could be added to
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/develop.html

Any proposals?

> and the list of features that a backend must implement.

Well, the backend must follow the SANE standard. Other than that,
nothing is really required. As you must provide some data when
sane_read is called, it would be nice if the backend could scan at
least in one mode :-)

Bye,
  Henning