WDS is a protocol based on http connection with devices such as scanners, printers and so on. Most of the work is based on a bunch of XML schemas, that are publicly available on MSDN. Searched a lot, but for Linux I only found this (https://github.com/al42and/WSDolefuls), that fails to parse the scanner response, but succeeds to start the scan job. I tried to search around SANE for WDS support, but I understood there isn't.
Is there a technical motivation behind the lack of support for WDS? or it's just not the top priority? Could it be possible to create a backend for this protocol? A lot of Canon printers would work like a charm with a single good implementation, and I think it would be the same with a lot of modern hardware. I could try to start a simple implementation if someone instructs me with the basics of the SANE internal API for backends and working principles, I'm a student with (not much) free time and it could be great to help a bit (and learn something) if possible. Patrick Roncagliolo
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