[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

[m. allan noah]

Are you trying to build a digital back for something like a medium
format body, or are you trying to build one of these panoramic
machines?

This seems to come up on this mailing list every few months, so you
could try searching the archive, but in general you will likely want a
CCD machine instead of a CIS machine. Smarter machines (like fujitsu)
do lots of self-tests and self calibration, and will not like being
dissembled. Dumber machines require more work from the software, which
you can choose not to do :)

allan

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Reetz<danreetz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My summer project is to build a scanner camera. I've done my reading
> and Googling, and found a few people's projects.
>
> I've seen the work by Wandel,
> http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
>
> Tom Sharpless,
> http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/
>
> Andrew Davidhazy,
> http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-demo-scanner-cam.html
>
> and recently this one made from an epson GT-S620 (anyone know the
> North American designation for that thing?)
> http://hackaday.com/2009/06/09/130-megapixel-scanner-camera/
>
> Basically, in a dream world, I'd have a scanner that did nothing but
> move and read out the CCD blindly, all other processing being done in
> software after the fact. To what extent is this currently possible,
> and are you aware of any particularly suitable hardware candidates?
> Low-cost is preferable, but far from a deal-breaker.
>
> I have spent some time hacking on scanners in the past, trying to
> disable startup checks and calibration sequences in hardware, and had
> little luck. But I have a strong suspicion that most of my problems
> come from using crappy scanners on Windows, and so I'd like to start
> using SANE to get much more control over the hardware. I see from the
> SANE site that many Fujitsu and Epson scanners have "complete" support
> (http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=&model=&bus=usb&v=&p=),
> but I'm not sure exactly what that means in terms of my project.
>
> Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sorry for the long message, and regards,
> Daniel Reetz
>
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