Henning, see below please Jim > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:47:06AM +0100, Jim George wrote: > > for various reasons I've moved from SuSE to cygwin and I want to know if > > I can bring sane with me as it appears to be the best/easiest way for me to > > offer remote scanning to the rest of my home network clients. > > XSane runs on Windows using cygwin. It can't use local scanners so you > can only go the other way round. XSane is linked against the net > backend, so this one is ported, too. >
I'm confused..if there's a saned then it must talk to a local device? > > I saw on the list, a long time ago, that someone had been successful > > with this venture. My question is, can someone point me at a reference or > > person to get me started on this? > > Oliver Rauch at least once wrote into the PROJECTS file: > "win32 port of SANE (planned)". > > I have never tried but I guess porting the infrastructure and the > backends is possible but will take time. The main problem is, > that you need access to the SCSI, USB and parport system to access the > scanners. I guess that will be quite a lot of work. > > By the way: Would it be possible to write a TWAIN-SANE bridge? That > means, accessing TWAIN scanners on a Windows system by SANE on a Unix > system? > I thought this already existed. I used precisely this when I was using SANE on a Linux box. I believe it's called sane-twain. Jim
