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.
Have a nice day,
Zdenek
[1]
https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan
[2]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-841f4ce8df
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Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C