Louis Lagendijk louis@fazant.net writes:
On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 17:20 +0100, lee wrote:
poma pomidorabelisima@gmail.com writes:
On 26.11.2013 21:04, lee wrote:
Since the device in question supports TWAIN and TWAIN, iirc, was supposed to be some sort of standard for scanners, isn't there some software, like sane, that supports scanning over the network?
The documentation there assumes that the scanner is connected to a computer through USB, SCSI or a parallel port, which is *not* the case.
Sane does support some network scanners. The problem with scanners is that there are so many different types of scanners where each requires a slightly or totally different driver (backends in Sane). Some of the backends support network scanners (for example Canon inkjets), some HP devices (if I remember correctly). There is however no Twain backend. Twain is not supported under Linux Now I wonder whether the device is really offering Twain or does it have a Twain driver that makes it usable under Windows?
I don't know exactly, and I don't have windoze. I can enable/disable TWAIN support through the web interface of the device. From a scanning device that is connected via ethernet, I simply expect that I can scan via network.
So in your case there is first the Twain support that is missing and second the network support. If the device really supports Twain (which is a software interface, not network) a twain driver is the first thing that is required. If that existed a network driver would be relatively easy to create.
So in any case, nothing would work using TWAIN. How about this RDS/WPS scan stuff that the device supports? Could that somehow be used?