[sane-devel] IBM ADF Scanner

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:26:37 +0200


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:27:34PM -0600, gboutwel wrote:
>   I have an IBM ADF Scanner.  The drivers I have for it are for
> Win 3.11, they worked under Win95, but I haven't gotten the scanner
> to work at all (or drivers for it) for Windows NT/2k.  So I thought
> maybe I could get it working under linux.

What's the name of the scanner? Is it really called just "ADF scanner"?

>   It doesn't appear to have an SANE backend for it.  IBM's web-site
> for this scanner (yes it's still available... just go to support
> & downloads and search for IBM ADF Scanner) says that it's compatible
> with an HP ScanJet IIcx, that does have an SANE backend for it.

If it's compatible, I guess it should work out of the box. 

There is a SANE IBM backend but it doesn't seem to support your
scanner. It maybe worth a try: 

http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ibm-backend/

Bye,
  Henning