Hello. I'm currently working on an artistic project and am looking for someone with technical knowledge (developer, engineer,?) to help me with advice and / or assistance.
Basically, what I am trying to do is to modify a desktop scanner so as to significantly increase the size of the scanning surface. See figure here : http://www.upian.net/schema.jpg What I want to do is, starting with a basic A4 or A3 scanner, to cut it and increase substantially the scanning surface "B" of the scanner. For instance, an A4 scanner uses a 21cm wide sensor that can scan a 29,7cm long surface, from point "p1" to point "p2" The idea is to cut the scanner and to increase its length in order to allow him to scan a significantly longer surface, up to a point "p3" that could be 2m from point "p1". The material aspect of that project isn't going to be a problem for me. But what I need help for is the software part of the problem : for the driver of the scanner has to be partially rewritten or modified so as to allow the tracks of the scan to run all the way through (point "p3") but also to produce an image that has the new proportions of the scanner. Depending on what you are advising, I'm also ready to invest in a specific model, if you think the driver of that specific scanner is going to be easier to reprogram / modify. Thank you very much for any input, advice or help : I'd really like to be able to pull this through, so please do not hesitate to share any thoughts you have on this, wether you think this is doable or not. -- Karim Moreau 76 rue de la jonquiere 75017 paris 06 22 18 91 55 karimmoreau at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20100710/8f6edaca/attachment.htm>
