[sane-devel] About Backend driver for Canon/HP USB scanner

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On 2006-05-15 10:29, Stephen Liu wrote:
> I'm considering to purchase either USB CanoScan 4200F (preferrable) or
> USB HP Scanjet 4370.  But they are unsupported on SANE.
> 
> [url]http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON[/url]
> [url]http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-HEWLETT-PACKARD[/url]
> 
> I have been searching "The sane-devel Archives"
> [url]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/[/url]
> 
> and could not find available Backend driver for them.

Yes.

> Can any folk on the forum shed me somelight.  TIA

The lists are correct as far as I know. There is no backend for the
Canon 4200F. For the HP 4370, it may be worth trying the external
hp3900 backend. However, that scanner is marked as "untested" so it
may or may not work:

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=hew&model=4370&bus=any&v=&p=

Bye,
  Henning