Communicating with Saned

"Sujeewa Raj" <ff.canengogmail.com> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

Better keep this on list, for there are more people that may
be able
to help.

> Thank you both for the details. I found many helpful
documents in doc folder
> and also in sane project web site.
> Unfortunately my development environment won't allow
me using linux for client
> end. Maybe I should explain my requirement more
specifically.
> I have a dedicated linux PC connected to a epson
10000XL scanner in a TCP/IP
> network lan. Other PCs (running Windows XP) want to
operate the scanner via
> the network. I'm using .Net C# to write a GUI/frontend
for the prupose. My
> program would be collecting user actions thru windows
forms and generating the
> corresponding TCP messages to the saned server.
Unfortunately, I'm struggling
> to find what those messages are.
> I would be grateful, if you can help me in finding out
the messages that I can
> send to saned TCP server.

Not that I have any experience with this, but I guess you
could "just"
port the SANE net backend to Windows .Net C#.  Chapter 5 of
the SANE
spec should be helpful.

Hope this helps,

> Best Regards,
> FF
>
>
> On 9/8/06, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissenavasys.jp> wrote:
>
>           "Sujeewa Raj" <ff.canengogmail.com> writes:     
>      > Hi all, > > I'm working on Epson
10000XL scanner connected to
>      linux thru sane (and I'm new > to the world of
sane). I want to
>      operate it over TCP/IP.     
>      As in connect the scanner directly to the network
and use it?  If
>      that is the case, you may be interested in the
unofficial epson2
>      backend that Alessandro Zummo posted to the list a
while ago.  For
>      details,     
>        http://lists.alioth.debian.org/piper
mail/sane-devel/2006-January/015986.html
>        http://lists.alioth.debian.org/piper
mail/sane-devel/2006-January/015969.html     
>      I do not know for sure whether the AcuLaser CX11NF
and the 10000XL
>      speak the same protocol, but I'd guess they do.  

>      > I downloaded the sane package and installed
it. There is a
>      frontend > called saned which provides a TCP
server for this
>      purpose. So I'm > writing the correspoding
Client programme to
>      connect to Saned TCP > Server.  I would like to
know the messages
>      that I'm suppossed to > send to Saned TCP
Server. Also any other
>      help/known issues regarding > saned.     
>      If you just want to make the device available via
a "dedicated" scan
>      server (scanner connected to a PC that allows
scanning from other
>      PCs) you can use any proper SANE frontend using
the net backend.     
>      > Secondly, how to get the documentation of
Sane in general. I >
>      followed the tutorial in the sane-project.org
site. It states that >
>      the overall package of sane comes with lots of
documentation, which
>      > I'm struggling to find. Some help from you
would be
>      great.  Thanking > in advance, FF     
>      The documentation is also up on the website.  See 

>        http://sane.a
lioth.debian.org/docs.html     
>      If you have the sane-backends (developer?) package
installed, check
>      below its doc/ directory or start with a simple
`man sane`.  If you
>      have the source code, everything is below doc/ in
"source" format.
>      You may want to `./configure && make`
first to get something more
>      readable.     
>      Hope this helps, -- Olaf
Meeuwissen                          EPSON
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>
>

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