Hello Eric, unfortunately I have no information about work in progress for these Microtek scanners. Microtek didn't release much information about the internals of their scanners, so I can't say if the new models are more or less similar to the SCSI-based devices which are operated by the microtek and microtek2 backends. Maybe the times have chaged and / or Microtek releases some detailed technical data if somebody wants to use some more of their scanners. Some time ago I was in contact with Michael Papet <mpa...@microtek.com> from Microtek, but unfortunately he wasn't able to provide helpful technical data.
And you may have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sm3600. This is a backend for newer USB scanners from microtek. I would suppose that these are technically more similar to the Firewire ones, perhaps you get some more information there. I cc'd this mail to the SANE-mailing list, maybe a reader of the list has some comments on this? Regards, Karsten Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2002 19:38 schrieben Sie: > Hello: > > I was wondering if you could tell me if any work is taking place > surrounding enabling any of the Firewire (IEEE-1394) scanners from Microtek > to function through any of the SANE backends. I saw no mention of these > scanners under either the microtek or the microtek2 backends. > > We are interested in potentially utilizing Microtek scanners but are > constrained to operate under a Linux based system and having access is > obviously a concern. > > I appreciate any info you can give me on this. > > Thanks, > > Eric Jackson > Xerox Corporation
