Hi Justin, On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:27:06 +0100 Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> wrote: > Driverless scanning is the ability to scan without using a vendor > backend driver, free or non-free. It is mainly associated with modern > multi-function devices, but some modern standalone scanners are known to > work driverless. "Modern" refers to devices that have been marketed in > the past five years or so. > > The official SANE driverless backend is provided by sane-escl in > libsane1 [1]. An independently developed driverless backend is > sane-airscan [2]. Both backends understand the eSCL protocol [3] but > sane-airscan can also use the WSD protocol [4]. Users should consider > having both backends on their systems. > > eSCL and WSD are network protocols. Consequently they will operate over > a USB connection if the device is an IPP-over-USB device [5]. Note that > libsane1 has ipp-usb [6] as a recommended package. This leads to a > suitable device being automatically set up to use a driverless backend > driver when it is connected to a USB port. > > > > [1] > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsane1&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > [2] > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sane-airscan&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#escl > [4] https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#wsd > [5] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#ippoverusb > [6] > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ipp-usb&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
You didn't comment on this text, does it mean it passes your judgement? Paul
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