[sane-devel] Adding new scanner to supported list -- require recompile?

2014-03-27 Thread David Poole
Does adding a new scanner to the supported list require recompiling the backend? vid/pid 03f0:262a can use the hpljm1005 backend. I have a few more recently released products' vid/pid that can also use that backend. I'm once again trying to convince management to allow me to support our product

[sane-devel] SANE protocol over USB as new USB scannerdevice class?

2008-12-28 Thread David Poole
Yup. We have a TWAIN and a standalone driver for OSX. IIRC, TWAIN has some problems with 10.5 but works with older OSX. (10.5 is on my wishlist to investigate.) -Original Message- From: m. allan noah [mailto:kitno...@gmail.com] Sent: Sun 12/28/2008 6:35 PM To: David Poole Cc: Paul

[sane-devel] SANE protocol over USB as new USB scannerdevice class?

2008-12-28 Thread David Poole
> Are you managers aware that your protocol was already reverse engineered? > http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-HPLJM1005 Yup, I've pointed that out. Didn't help. I'm still working on the Powers That Be but we have a lot of institutional inertia. -- next

[sane-devel] SANE protocol over USB as new USB scannerdevice class?

2008-12-28 Thread David Poole
> Sounds like you would be the kind of manufacturer to publish protocol > specs, do you plan to do that, or have you done so? Me, personally, I'd love to be able to do that. I've talked with my managers and no go. As a previous poster mentioned, our business types consider our own protocol a "

[sane-devel] SANE protocol over USB as new USB scannerdevice class?

2008-12-28 Thread David Poole
> Bah. Any pointers on that? I haven't been able to find anything on the > intartubes about such a class yet. http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class/#BaseClass06h www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usb_still_img10.pdf When we were developing our scanners, we looked into the USB still imagi

[sane-devel] help with improving text scans

2008-12-19 Thread David Poole
> try the -density flag to convert. -density 300 -units PixelsPerInch is what I use when scanning to TIF or PNG. (Substitute '300' for appropriate scan DPI.) -Original Message- From: sane-devel-bounces+dpoole=marvell@lists.alioth.debian.org on behalf of m. allan noah Sent: Fri 12/