The main stream kernel doesn't seem to bother about scanners and most scanners
I have ever heard of are SCSI devices. However, the scanner I now bought, a
UMAX ScanThis!, has its own proprietary AT-Bus board and it uses a protocol
called TWAIN to transmit the data from the scanner to an application. At least
the documentation that followed it calls it a standard, but perhaps UMAX is the
only company using it :-)
To make a short story long, does anyone have any idea of what to expect for
support of various scanners in the kernel and/or does anyone know of any
utility to make this scanner work under Linux? Now I have to boot to Win311
every time as I am unfortunately not able to write a driver for it to Linux.
I did first take a look at the Hardware-HOWTO and some of the scanners
mentioned there, but I wasn't able to figure it out from that.
Thanks for listening,
Peter
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