[sane-devel] Reverse engeneering of a network attached scanner?

[Jörg Knochen]

Great!

So now I have to look into wireshark. As far as I can see, it writes a lot of different file formats. Which one would be preferable?

Thanks,
Jörg


On 25 Jun 2014, at 14:32, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This looks like a fun project! The complexity of a driver is often
> inversely proportional to the cost of the scanner. Since this is not a
> commodity machine, I'm not sure that rule applies. Take a wireshark
> dump of the smallest scan possible, and put it up on the web
> somewhere.
> 
> allan
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Jörg Knochen <joerg at jcbone.de> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I’m the administrator of a small dentists office. The IT is Macintosh based, with a FreeNAS Server, with one exeption: the workstation used for XRay operation has to run windows because of ONE missing twain driver for OS X.
>> 
>> The scanner is the following model:
>> 
>> http://www.duerrdental.com/en/products/imaging/vistascan-image-plate-scanner/vistascan-mini-plus/?changeLang=1
>> 
>> It can be attached by USB, but in our case it uses a network connection over IP.
>> 
>> If i could sniff this network connection and record the communication between the twain driver and the scanner - is there anyone out there willing to help me write a sane driver? The manufacturer has no interest so far in supporting anything but windows.
>> 
>> Another Idea: wouldn’t it be possible to install the original Twain driver into a wine bottle and write a sane driver which can pass through the twain commands from the bottle to a native interface on the unix side? This would be a GREAT workaround, too.
>> 
>> Thanks for your time,
>> Jörg-Ch. Knochen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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