[sane-devel] Hello list. [HP ScanJet 5550c]

[Jonas Widarsson]

I have one HP ScanJet 5550c scanner here at the office that only works for my 
colleagues with Windows XP and Mac OS X.

It has an ADF (extremely important in my case) and looks like this:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15179-64195-215155-15202-215155-77360.html

This scanner doesn't seem to be reported/supported/worked on.
Am I wrong? 

I am unexperienced with the C language but have been programming for five 
years at work (mainly PHP nowadays but also a little C++). However, if this 
scanner is somewhat similar to other scanners with series numbers close to 
55xx, maybe I can help out converting a similar backend and testing/patching 
to make this scanner supported. I don't think I can write one from scratch. I 
have no experience from this kind of development before (hardware drivers for 
linux).

If such a development process is already going on for this scanner, I'd love 
to help sending test reports and such.

I guess I should attach the sane-find-scanner -v -v but first I'd like to know 
if it is necessary.

Thanks,
-- 
Jonas Widarsson

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