[sane-devel] Reverse engeneering of a network attached scanner?

[M. Allan Noah]

The simplest, uncompressed bitmap.  

allan

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On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Jörg Knochen <joerg at jcbone.de> wrote:

> Great!
> 
> So now I have to look into wireshark. As far as I can see, it writes a lot of different file formats. Which one would be preferable?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jörg
> 
> 
> On 25 Jun 2014, at 14:32, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This looks like a fun project! The complexity of a driver is often
>> inversely proportional to the cost of the scanner. Since this is not a
>> commodity machine, I'm not sure that rule applies. Take a wireshark
>> dump of the smallest scan possible, and put it up on the web
>> somewhere.
>> 
>> allan
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Jörg Knochen <joerg at jcbone.de> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> I’m the administrator of a small dentists office. The IT is Macintosh based, with a FreeNAS Server, with one exeption: the workstation used for XRay operation has to run windows because of ONE missing twain driver for OS X.
>>> 
>>> The scanner is the following model:
>>> 
>>> http://www.duerrdental.com/en/products/imaging/vistascan-image-plate-scanner/vistascan-mini-plus/?changeLang=1
>>> 
>>> It can be attached by USB, but in our case it uses a network connection over IP.
>>> 
>>> If i could sniff this network connection and record the communication between the twain driver and the scanner - is there anyone out there willing to help me write a sane driver? The manufacturer has no interest so far in supporting anything but windows.
>>> 
>>> Another Idea: wouldn’t it be possible to install the original Twain driver into a wine bottle and write a sane driver which can pass through the twain commands from the bottle to a native interface on the unix side? This would be a GREAT workaround, too.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Jörg-Ch. Knochen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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