[sane-devel] Technical infos about reverse engineering

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:37:09PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
> then it is a matter of making very small steps, like scanning small image 
> in b&w, then change the x dimension and scan again it again, then change 
> the y and scan again, then change the paper size and scan again. then try 
> a different resolution, then grayscale, then color...

One useful tip at this stage is to wait 20+ seconds between each thing you
do. If you've got a list of what you did, you can use the timestamps in the
sniffer to match up cause/effect.

Good luck! It's not easy, but the results are worth it.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> (... have gone from d-i being barely usable even by its developers
> anywhere, to being about 20% done. Sweet. And the last 80% usually takes
> 20% of the time, too, right?) -- Anthony Towns, debian-devel-announce
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