[sane-devel] Communicating with Saned

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

"Sujeewa Raj" <ff.canengo at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on Epson 10000XL scanner connected to linux thru sane (and I'm new
> to the world of sane). I want to operate it over TCP/IP.

As in connect the scanner directly to the network and use it?  If that
is the case, you may be interested in the unofficial epson2 backend
that Alessandro Zummo posted to the list a while ago.  For details,

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015986.html
  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015969.html

I do not know for sure whether the AcuLaser CX11NF and the 10000XL
speak the same protocol, but I'd guess they do.

> I downloaded the sane package and installed it. There is a frontend
> called saned which provides a TCP server for this purpose. So I'm
> writing the correspoding Client programme to connect to Saned TCP
> Server.  I would like to know the messages that I'm suppossed to
> send to Saned TCP Server. Also any other help/known issues regarding
> saned.

If you just want to make the device available via a "dedicated" scan
server (scanner connected to a PC that allows scanning from other PCs)
you can use any proper SANE frontend using the net backend.

> Secondly, how to get the documentation of Sane in general. I
> followed the tutorial in the sane-project.org site. It states that
> the overall package of sane comes with lots of documentation, which
> I'm struggling to find. Some help from you would be great.  Thanking
> in advance, FF

The documentation is also up on the website.  See

  http://sane.alioth.debian.org/docs.html

If you have the sane-backends (developer?) package installed, check
below its doc/ directory or start with a simple `man sane`.  If you
have the source code, everything is below doc/ in "source" format.
You may want to `./configure && make` first to get something more
readable.

Hope this helps,
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