Perhaps just playing with the afe settings in the config file will be enough?
If not, so you will have to do some deep diving to find a solution.
Best place to start will be the source code for the backend, and
perhaps a trace of the windows driver in action using this:
I have one of these scanners hooked to a Fedora 14 system. The
scanner scans the page OK but the resulting image is a medium gray
overall. The actual image content is there but barely visible within
the gray background.
I tried this scanner under Windows XP and it seemed to work. It asked
for
