[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-31 Thread Dan Scott
Hi, 2008/7/31 Ekkehard Morgenstern ekkehard at ekkehardmorgenstern.de: Hi Dan, I'm working on getting a RS232 scanner working on Linux. I see that Sane has some support for serial port scanners but not much. The scanner is attached to a POS system for retail sales and runs RHEL5. The

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
on a slip of paper - if that is any use. Also, I can attach the log file of system calls made by the diagnostic application if that will help anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dan Scott

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
kitno455 at gmail.com: i have quite a bit of omr experience, and have done a bit with rs232 in the past, but never scanners. do your logs show the actual data being passed? if so, i think your first effort should be to extract image from logs. allan On 7/30/08, Dan Scott danieljamesscott

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
, Dan 2008/7/30 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com: but is this diag software output post-processed by the pc? if you have logs of the data in flight, and there is no image, then you dont need sane, you need a standalone app. allan On 7/30/08, Dan Scott danieljamesscott at gmail.com wrote

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
Hi, 2008/7/30 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com: So I was hoping that I would be able to use sane to communicate with the scanner and work out what is happening. backwards. you have to work out what is happening, _before_ you write the sane driver :) Not quite. I was hoping that the