[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-31 Thread Dan Scott
Hi, 2008/7/31 Ekkehard Morgenstern : > > 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 scanner's OS is Red Hat Ente

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
Hi, 2008/7/30 m. allan noah : >> 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 scanner would alre

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
hanks, Dan 2008/7/30 m. allan noah : > 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 wrote: >> Hi, >&g

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
e 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 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wo

[sane-devel] RS232 Scanner

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Scott
pplication returns an array of data relating to the marks entered 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