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Is there a unified scanner (the hardware) driver like what we have for printers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm building a sw that should be able to read the papers read from a scanner and process them with a minimal user interaction, basically I don't want the user to jump into another sw, output an image or doc, and insert that into my sw, this kind of problem seems to be fixed when it comes to printers printing, but I couldn't find something similar for scanners (paper scanners especially, I have no use for QR and barcode scanners), the best I could find is USB HID interface, which seems pretty low level and if I'm not wrong device-specific so I have to write the implementation for each model I need to support (please correct me if I'm wrong), I know this is a Linux community but does Windows have something similar too (my sw will probably need to run on it)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chance that someone already made SANE binding for your programming language of choice, e.g. jfreesane for java, python-sane , etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yes that's what I've been looking for, thanks a lot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There is a TWAIN like project called SANE that I have no personal experience with, but it might point you into the right direction.

sane-project.org

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I know TWAIN, so mow I'm curious what SANE stands for.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Scanner Access Now Easy

Not a joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol 😁 those people sure do know how to acronym!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

At least it’s not a recursive acronym 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I didn't know TWAIN, so I looked it up and am glad I did:

TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah that seems like it, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They also have https://sane-project.gitlab.io/website/ (got an SSL error with your link)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your browser is trying to use https by default probably. It is an http only link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It is an https website. The first time I tried I got the warning that the certificate is self-signed, but now it shows that it's secure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you can now use AirScan (also called something else I don't recall currently) for "driverless" scanning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is that Apple-specific?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, it's a cross platform standard. You can even run a server on Linux interfacing with SANE to convert older scanners.

I looked up the non-Apple name and it's eSCL. That's a lot easier to search for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Found it, thx