[sane-devel] VIDAR Digitizer

[Mark Thurston]

Dear developers

I've got an obscure scanner which I really need to get working and I'm prepared to get my hands dirty but I can't find much documentation.

Any tips/pointers would be very helpful.

It's a Vidar Diagnostic Pro digitizer -- used in radiology to scan X-rays from old radiographic film. As you can imagine, it's quite a niche product.

Output:

# dmesg
[  179.813929] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 6
[  181.783329] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[  181.933595] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0c58, idProduct=0100
[  181.933599] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  181.933602] usb 1-2: Product: VIDAR Film Digitizer
[  181.933605] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: VIDAR
[  181.933607] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 300000

~ # sane-find-scanner 

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c58 [VIDAR], product=0x0100 [VIDAR Film Digitizer]) at libusb:001:007
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

unfortunately it is not listed on # scanimage -L

If I make any progress (with or without help), I would like to submit my work back to the project. I have some experience in C and Python and am prepared to learn as needed.
The alternative is a very expensive proprietary closed source vendor solution with unreliable support and a poor security update record.

Best wishes

Mark