[sane-devel] Technical infos about reverse engineering

[Julien TIERNY]

Thanx for your tricks !

I think I can see more clearly the method I will follow...

I will keep you inform of my experiments if they are interesting.

Maybe it could be a good point to write a SANE "official" how-to about the=
=20
reverse engineering and the list of features that a backend must implement.
What do you think of this ?

julien

Le Vendredi 13 F=E9vrier 2004 21:54, Martijn van Oosterhout a =E9crit :
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:37:09PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
> > then it is a matter of making very small steps, like scanning small ima=
ge
> > in b&w, then change the x dimension and scan again it again, then change
> > the y and scan again, then change the paper size and scan again. then t=
ry
> > a different resolution, then grayscale, then color...
>
> One useful tip at this stage is to wait 20+ seconds between each thing you
> do. If you've got a list of what you did, you can use the timestamps in t=
he
> sniffer to match up cause/effect.
>
> Good luck! It's not easy, but the results are worth it.