Dear Ilia, We've already done some work already, and we could still make use of some or your code. Yes please, I appreciate if you could send us your work and we'll try to make the best use out of it.
Best Regards --Omar On 3/7/2010 3:24 PM, Ilia Sotnikov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Omar Halaseh<omar at omnix.ae> wrote: > >> Many thanks for your prompt help Ilia. I really appreciate it. >> > You are welcome, glad to help on using open source solutions. > > >> Actually we are trying to write a simple front end solution within Active/X >> to interact with scanners connected to SunRay thin clients running on >> Solaris servers. >> We'll take a look at the documentation and try to make use of ready made >> components as much as possible. Isn't there any Windows libraries that will >> help in building a frontend that doesn't rely on Cygwin? >> > Well, as I mentioned earlier, I've made native (non-Cygwin) versions > of the libraries, although didn't commit them. Not sure when I could > have a time to update the patches for the current SANE backends. As a > starting point, I could sent you compiled binaries along with the > patches (they are against sane backends 1.0.18) > > >> We've tried some of the windows frontends such as XSane, and scanimage that >> accompanies it. The SANE libraries accompanying it seems to be of an older >> version "1.0.16". We get an error "Can't determine the option count." Is >> this error due to a difference in the version numbers of the network >> protocol. We're using the "net" backend to communicate with the scanner >> remotely and the backend at the server is 1.0.20. >> > I've ported Xsane to Win32 too, although it's a bit old (XSane 0.991). > In general words, I was interested in a complete frontend solution for > Win32 and ported all necessary parts (SANE libraries, scanimage and > XSane). The XSane patches weren't sent to mainline as well. I could > give you the all libraries and binaries, along with patches, so you > could try to use them and reduce implementation time, if the solution > suits your needs. > > >> I have another question. Do you know if we can use SANE with fingerprint >> reader devices such as U.ARE.U 4500 fingerprint readers from Digital >> Persona: >> http://www.digitalpersona.com/developer/U-are-U-Fingerprint-Readers/U-are-U-4500-Reader/4500-Reader/ >> > Haven't even heard about such device. Usual way to check whether a > device is supported is: > - take a look at list of the devices supported by SANE > (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html) > - take current GIT snapshot and compile it > - gather all device information (vendor, 'sane-find-scanner -v -v -v' output) > - try to scan > - report your findings on the sane-devel mailing list > > Perhaps, someone could recognize the device and give you some suggestions. > > Best regards, > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: omar.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 1251 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20100308/a12d6ea7/attachment.vcf>
