# Re: newbie

From: Robert Schwebel (robert@schwebel.de)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 07:28:29 PDT

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  Hi Baltazar!

  On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alan Baltazar wrote:
  > I'm new at developing scanner drivers for linux. Could anyone tell me
  > how to get started on developing one? In other words, do I need to get
  > any specs from the company that made the scanner? Or is it just using
  > one of the other scanner drivers as a template and tweaking it until the
  > scanner works right?

  You should print out the SANE standard document and read it carefully to
  know how things are meant to work. Then I think the best solution is to
  look at a well designed driver (e.g. the umax one) and see how it's
  implemented.

  Robert

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