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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: USB scanners?
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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> No, I don't have one yet.  I was thinking of buying a scanner, and it
> seemed to be a logical thing to buy a USB scanner and write a driver
> for FreeBSD.
> 
> I suppose I could contact all the scanner manufacturers and ask for
> programming docco.  Does anybody have any leads?

this is a painful road in my experience. I suggest that you look at the
SANE web page and see if there are pointers to documentation.

HP has some documentation of the language (SCL ?) used by its SCSI
scanners but i don't know to what degree it applies to non-SCSI
units.

	cheers
	luigi
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