[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

[Oleg Perelet]

I did 8x10 scanning back off CIS Canon Lido several years ago for Sinar P2, at that time there was no SANE Lido support and I had to hack quite a bit. 

Recently I've seen Lido support added - for $80 for scanner it worth trying.

Note - even after I made it work there were problems with few missed scan lines and some other image artifacts. 

I may dig for my old source, but I suggest give new Lido a shot.


PS. Also if anybody did something similar for CCD scanners - please post your findings.


Oleg.




--- On Thu, 6/11/09, Daniel Reetz <danreetz at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Reetz <danreetz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?
> To: "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>
> Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 1:39 PM
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, m.
> allan noah<kitno455 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I am trying to build a digital back for a custom camera,
> something
> like a medium format camera.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks. I see this question has been asked a few times with
> a few
> different angles, but no one has really concretely
> recommended
> anything or come back to report positive experiences with
> some
> specific hardware. Bummer, that.
> 
> I did find your recommendation for certain "dumb" chipsets
> (GT* and/or
> Genesys in particular). On the supported scanners list, I
> see that the
> HP ScanJet 2300c has "complete" support and USB2. This
> sounds ideal to
> me. In your opinion, is it a good hacking candidate?
> 
> [ http://www.amazon.com/HP-ScanJet-2300c-Flatbed-Scanner/dp/B00006AMS5
> ]
> 
> > 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 :)
> 
> I see... thank you again for your time and advice, and
> apologies for
> not Googlin' the archives sooner.
> Daniel
> 
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