[sane-devel] SANE Help & Contact

[Mcgrath, Michael D]

Hello Olaf, 

Thank you for your response. It is appreciated. I have emailed Alex (ABC) and he has responded -- thank you all.

If a developer wanted to entertain creating these scan drivers for the products mentioned, does anyone have a rough estimate or ballpark on what the bid would be? Or is this just something not worth pursuing? I ask because this customer is a large enterprise account. 

Please let me know or if there any alternative solutions you recommend. 

Thanks,

Michael D. McGrath
Customization Project Manager
Xerox Custom Innovation Services
GTDG/GDG - Engineering Services and Customization
Xerox Corporation
800 Phillips Road Webster, NY
Building 111-2441
p: 585.427-3502 (8*707-3502)

-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> 
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1:33 AM
To: Mcgrath, Michael D <Michael.Mcgrath at xerox.com>
Cc: sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net; Bernhard Schmidt <berni at debian.org>; Povilas Kanapickas <povilas at radix.lt>; Alex Belkin <abc at telekom.ru>
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] SANE Help & Contact

Hi Michael,

I'm the SANE Project's (self-appointed) Janitor.

Mcgrath, Michael D writes:

> Good Day,
> Bernard provided me your contact information for my request.
>
> I am a Xerox Project Manager who is looking for a contact or method in 
> which to add multiple Xerox Devices into SANE. I would like to apply 
> our product portfolio for major accounts to have the ability to scan 
> to our devices via Linux. Xerox does not support Linux scanning 
> directly. Can someone provide me contact details and the process in 
> which to engage the SANE Team?

You've already found the mailing list, good.  For manufacturers we have a [dedicated web page][1] with information (somewhat dated, though) and there is also a general page with info on [contributing][2].

 [1]: http://sane-project.org/manufacturers.html
 [2]: http://sane-project.org/contrib.html

You may be pleased to know that the SANE Backends already include [support for a number of Xerox devices][3] via several backends.

 - `avision`, unmaintained :-(
 - `genesys`, maintained by Povilas Kanapickas
 - `xerox_mfp`, maintained by Alex Belkin

 [3]: http://sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html#Z-XEROX

I've Cc:d both maintainers.  Depending on which of the two maintained backends is closest to the devices' protocols you want to add, I suggest you contact it's maintainer.  Cc:ing the mailing list is appreciated, so we all stay in the loop.

All our code, merge requests and issues are available from

  https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends

You can clone the project, work on the changes you want to make, push them to GitLab and create a merge request to get them integrated.

> Thanks,

You're welcome.

Hope this helps,
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