Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:36:35 -0400 | From | Peter Leif Rasmussen <> | Subject | UMAX Scanner support |
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Having just acquired a very cheap (CA$65) handscanner from UMAX that works splendid under Win311, I would like to ask this forum about scanner support in general with regard to the TWAIN standard, and also about possible support for this scanner in particular.
The main stream kernel doesn't seem to bother about scanners and most scanners I have ever heard of are SCSI devices. However, the scanner I now bought, a UMAX ScanThis!, has its own proprietary AT-Bus board and it uses a protocol called TWAIN to transmit the data from the scanner to an application. At least the documentation that followed it calls it a standard, but perhaps UMAX is the only company using it :-)
To make a short story long, does anyone have any idea of what to expect for support of various scanners in the kernel and/or does anyone know of any utility to make this scanner work under Linux? Now I have to boot to Win311 every time as I am unfortunately not able to write a driver for it to Linux.
I did first take a look at the Hardware-HOWTO and some of the scanners mentioned there, but I wasn't able to figure it out from that.
Thanks for listening,
Peter -- main(){char*s="O_>>^PQAHBbPQAHBbPOOH^^PAAHBJPAAHBbPA_H>BB";int i,j,k,l,m,n; for(j=0;j<7;j++)for(l=0;m=l-6+j,i=m/6,n=j*6+i,k=1<<m%6,l<41-j;l++) putchar(l<6-j?' ':l==40-j?'\n':k&&s[n]&k?'*':' ');}
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