[sane-devel] Drivers

[Djordje Dragic]

Its ScanJet 3770. I'm currently using it with VueScan in Windows on qemu.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM Djordje Dragic <orange47 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can we use usb sniffer to help develop drivers? I got hp scanjet that is
>> unsupported in linux.
>>
>
> Yes, it is possible and commonly how it is done. Firstly, a developer
> would probably want to know if the device uses a protocol that is already
> supported.
> Otherwise, writing a new backend is not very difficult but some knowledge
> of the API is required. Usually, it is easier to take an existing backend
> and modify it to suit, at least I found it so.
>
> Out of interest, which ScanJet do you have?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>
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