Re: Handheld Scanners supp.?

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Sun, 20 Apr 1997 17:17:42 -0700

>>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 01:29:22 -0700, theod@skiathos.physics.auth.gr said:

Theod> I happen to own a TWAIN-compliant CG-8000 Mustek(800dpi)
Theod> color scanner (with GI-1906 interface card) and i can't find
Theod> any programs that can make use of it (under linux). I know i
Theod> may be asking for too much, but are you planning to provide
Theod> support for handheld scanners (or generally twain devices) as
Theod> well in the future?

It certainly would be nice to have this scanner supported.
Unfortunately, I don't have any docs for handheld Mustek scanners (nor
do I have such a scanner). If you want, I could try to get you in
touch with Mustek Tawain. They might be able to help you find the
necessary programming docs, at least. But it does, of course, assume
that you'd be interested in writing a backend for these devices.

FYI: TWAIN is a _software_ interface and since there are no TWAIN
"drivers" available for Linux, it really doesn't help at all that the
scanner system is TWAIN compliant. Even if there were a TWAIN driver
for Linux, it'd be nearly impossible to implement a SANE-backend for
the TWAIN interface (see the mailing list archive for a recent
discussion on this topic), so don't expect a SANE backend for TWAIN
any time soon.

Maybe the Mustek handheld scanners _are_ hw-compatible with some other
scanner, but I have no info on this (maybe somebody else on this list
knows better?).

--david

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