Hi, On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:09:39PM +0200, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > I have one HP ScanJet 5550c scanner here at the office that only works for my > colleagues with Windows XP and Mac OS X. > > It has an ADF (extremely important in my case) and looks like this: > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15179-64195-215155-15202-215155-77360.html > > This scanner doesn't seem to be reported/supported/worked on. > Am I wrong?
Yes: http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=hew&model=5550&bus=any > I am unexperienced with the C language but have been programming for five > years at work (mainly PHP nowadays but also a little C++). However, if this > scanner is somewhat similar to other scanners with series numbers close to > 55xx, maybe I can help out converting a similar backend and testing/patching > to make this scanner supported. I don't think I can write one from scratch. I > have no experience from this kind of development before (hardware drivers for > linux). > > If such a development process is already going on for this scanner, I'd love > to help sending test reports and such. Search the sane-devel mailing list archive for "genesys" and gl841. > I guess I should attach the sane-find-scanner -v -v but first I'd like to > know > if it is necessary. Yes, please, especially if you have a recent installation of SANE (1.0.15). Bye, Henning