[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

[Dan Scott]

Hi,

2008/7/30 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>>  So I was hoping that I would be able to use sane to communicate with
>>  the scanner and work out what is happening.
>
> backwards. you have to work out what is happening, _before_ you write
> the sane driver :)

Not quite. I was hoping that the scanner would already work with sane.
:) at least partially. Then I could get the basic protocol from the
code.

> do you have windows drivers for the image scanning part? if so, i
> would use a usb-serial converter and benoit's usb sniffer to get a
> log, and see if you can extract the image data.

No, unfortunately I have no documentation/driver other than this
diagnostic application. I'm thinking I'll have to figure out the
manufacturer and ask them for protocol documentation.

It's a shame there's no "standard" for serial port scanners! Would
avoid a lot of work.

Thanks for your comments.

Dan