[sane-devel] Any ides for an Avision A8 Scanner?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Ralph,

Ralph Little writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 2020-01-01 5:14 p.m., daniel at pixelgrease.co wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's not listed as supported, but thought I might get lucky. My
>> thinking was that if it's supported by Mac, it should work with linux.
>> Tried specifying all sorts of values in /etc/sane.d/avision.conf but
>> nothing seemed to work.
>>
>> Is there a way to add support to the existing avision backend?
>>
>
> I'm interested to know why you think it is an Avision scanner?

Uh,

> device descriptor of 0x0638/0x0707 at 004:003 (PenPower A8 Scanner )

That 0x0638 is Avision's vendor ID ...

Hope that helps,
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