From: Paul Smedley

Hi All,
This is the first public release of Sane built to support USB scanners using the Netlabs usbcalls library.

This is based on CVS code pulled today (6th July, 2005) and should be pretty close to what will be in Sane 1.0.16

Information on the scanners that should work with this release is at:
http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html

Download: http://smedley.info/sane-cvs-20050706-os2-usbcalls.zip

So far, it has been tested only with an Epson Perfection 1670 USB scanner.

YOUR FEEDBACK IS NEEDED!

NOTE: sane-find-scanner will not detect USB scanners in this release - I need to majorly rehash the earlier code.

This release requires:
* usbresmg.sys to be loaded in config.sys (ships with eCS - updated version available at http://smedley.info/usbresmg.zip
* usbcalls.dll in the libpath - available from
http://smedley.info/usbcalls.zip
* libc06b5.dll - available from http://smedley.info/libc06b5.zip

It requires sanelib to be in the libpath, and the following environment variable set so that Sane can find it's configuration files:
set sane_config_dir=saneetcsane.d

At this stage, the release has only been tested with the sane directory off of the root.

First test to try is scanner detection using:
scanimage -L

My scanner returns: device `snapscan:usbcalls:3' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner

To execute a scan, simply try scanimage >scan.pnm

Note that some scanners will require modifications to the .conf files that are found in saneetcsane.d

If this doesn't work with your USB scanner, please set me debug information on using the following 'set' statements:
set SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255
- turns on debug information for the USB interface
set SANE_DEBUG_xxxxxxx=255 - where xxxxxxx = the name of your scanners backend - eg snapscan

then run: scanimage -v 1>image.pnm 2>debugoutput.txt
Debug information will be sent to debugoutput.txt

Please also send me details on the versions of the USB stack being run, the USB chipset in use and the system level, as well of course as the name of the scanner.

I'd like to start working on a website listing scanners that DO work.

If you'd like to support this project, please consider any of the following:
* donate to Netlabs - http://shop.mensys.nl/catalogue/mns_netlabs.html
* encourage me to keep working on this and other projects by using Paypal to donate to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Of course remove the DESPAMadded by the moderator)
* write and TELL ME if this works or not :)

Cheers,

Paul Smedley.

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