Linux scanner

[simonb at webone.com.au]

wow, this looks really interesting.
i have built the jaycar kit, but not
done anything much with it yet.
also, have been hankering to do
some reverse engineering on my
scanner...
will u be at next CLUG?
could u bring that 74LS buffer board along,
as i guess i'll be makin' one myself.

-Simon Burton


Simon Krix wrote:

>>Well, dick smith has a canon scanner which is supported by sane
>>for $99 I
>>think.  It was marked down to $88 a couple of months ago.  Full
>>color
>>flatbed scanner 1200dpi.
>>
>
>Actually, no driver exists for that scanner in SANE. There is a
>preliminary fb630u driver coming just being started, but other
>than that no USB scanners are supported by the Canon backend. Only
>the CanoScan FB630P, FB330P, N640P and N340P parallel port
>scanners are supported, by a driver project which I maintain,
>though not yet completely (Canon, of course, have not even
>bothered to reply to our requests for information. I have had to
>reverse-engineer from scratch).
>
>Since I'm typing this to the CLUG list, if there's anyone in the
>Canberra area who has an N640P, N340P, or newer Canon
>parallel-port scanner (I think there are 650s now) who'd like to
>lend it to me for a weekend for the purposes of open-source driver
>development, please email me.
>
>The project: http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net/
>
>Simon Krix
>