[sane-devel] VIDAR Digitizer

[m. allan noah]

Make some scans with the scanner on windows, and capture the USB
packets with wireshark. Then put the wireshark logs up on the web for
others to look at, while you attempt to make sense of them too :)

allan

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Mark Thurston <mark at mdvthu.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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