On 8/5/20 8:30 AM, Jiří Eischmann wrote:
> Zdenek Dohnal píše v St 05. 08. 2020 v 07:44 +0200:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to announce sane-airscan project [1] will be shipped in
>> the
>> official Fedora repositories from Fedora 32 [2].
>>
>> sane-airscan implements a backend for Microsoft WSD and ESCL (usually
>> called AirScan, originating from Apple) protocols, which are common
>> in
>> newer (2012+) scanners and multi-function devices for scanning.
>>
>> Using sane-airscan, newer devices don't need vendor proprietary
>> software
>> for scanning any longer (e.g. hplip with its hp-plugin).
>>
>> The project is divided into main package - sane-airscan - which
>> contains
>> helper tool - airscan-discover - for discovering devices in setups,
>> where automatic DNS-SD discovery doesn't do the trick, and subpackage
>> -
>> libsane-airscan - which the main package requires and the common
>> known
>> project for scanning - sane-backends - will require to get the
>> backend
>> into common scanning stack installation.
>>
>> Please feel free to test it.
>
> Will it be possible to use a Fedora machine as a server, so that I can
> have an old scanner connected to it via USB and then shared with other
> devices on the local network via those protocols?
> That would be neat.
If your clients are SANE supported OSs, you can already do that with
saned. For example this documentation
https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork
>
> Jiri
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