I am not in a position to take you up on your offer, but I wanted to say thank you very, very much for your effort/investment. These are the sort of things that make free software possible, and make me proud to be a small part of it.
allan On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Jack McGill <jmcgill85258 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am relatively new to linux and have posted a couple of times. I am > interested in the small mobile document scanners, also known as > pass-through or sheetfed scanners. > > I have made a small web page that attempts to summarize the sheetfed > scanners that are available > http://sites.google.com/site/sheetfedscannerslinux/. This is meant to > complement the supported devices section of the Sane webpage. > > Also, I have recently purchased several of these on eBay, when I could > get a really good price. I wanted to offer these to the Sane project as > my contribution. If a Sane developer is interested in any of these, > email me and describe your experience developing Sane. I will send you > the scanner and it is yours to keep. You can use it or abuse it however > you see fit. All I ask is that you put a driver into the Sane project > for that device. I will pay for postage. I will try to pay any customs > fees or VAT, but you may have to pay this. > > Here is a list of what I have available: > > Visioneer Strobe XP 200: This has a GL646 chipset, so it could be > adapted to the genesys backend. It is powered through an external 17 > volt power supply. Mine fits North American style sockets. > > Visioneer Strobe XP 300: This has a GL842 chip, so it could be adapted > to the genesys backend. It can be powered through the USB cable. It also > can be powered through an external power supply for faster scans. It is > a duplex scanner (scans both sides simultaneously). The scanner that I > have does put a black line down the middle of one of the sides that it > scans, which is probably due to a bad sensor. This should not affect the > ability to develop a driver, but it may decrease the value of the > scanner to you. > > Visioneer Strobe Pro: The chip inside appears to be a proprietary > Visioneer chip. A whole new backend would probably have to be written. > The only advantage to going through the trouble of doing this that I can > see is that these scanners are really cheap on ebay. This scanner needs > an external power supply. > > Pentax DS Mobile: This is supposedly the same as the syscan Travelscan > Pro 2300. I won a lot of 10 of these on ebay and I expect that at least > one will work. This has a LM9832/3 chip and should be adaptable to the > plustek backend. > > Visioneer RoadWarrior: This has a GL842 chip, so it could be adapted to > genesys. I have one of these that I paid full retail price and I am > emotionally attached to it. I could loan it out for a few months, but > I'd like to eventually get it back. Also, someone may already be working > on this device. This device is powered through the USB cable. > > Visioneer OneTouch 5800 USB flatbed scanner: I have one of these that I > don't want. It is pretty heavy, so I only want to ship this in the > United States. Realtek RTS8801C chipset. > > -- > Jack McGill > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
