From: Paul Smedley <paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info> 

Hi All,
This is the first public release of Sane built to support USB scanners
using the Netlabs usbcalls library.

This is based on CVS code pulled today (6th July, 2005) and should be
pretty close to what will be in Sane 1.0.16

Information on the scanners that should work with this release is at: 
http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html

Download: http://smedley.info/sane-cvs-20050706-os2-usbcalls.zip 

So far, it has been tested only with an Epson Perfection 1670 USB scanner.

YOUR FEEDBACK IS NEEDED!

NOTE: sane-find-scanner will not detect USB scanners in this release - I
need to majorly rehash the earlier code.

This release requires:
 * usbresmg.sys to be loaded in config.sys (ships with eCS - updated 
version available at http://smedley.info/usbresmg.zip
 * usbcalls.dll in the libpath - available from 
http://smedley.info/usbcalls.zip
 * libc06b5.dll - available from http://smedley.info/libc06b5.zip

It requires \sane\lib to be in the libpath, and the following  environment
variable set so that Sane can find it's configuration files: set
sane_config_dir=\sane\etc\sane.d 

At this stage, the release has only been tested with the sane directory
off of the root.

First test to try is scanner detection using:
    scanimage -L

My scanner returns: device `snapscan:usbcalls:3' is a EPSON EPSON  Scanner
flatbed scanner

To execute a scan, simply try scanimage >scan.pnm

Note that some scanners will require modifications to the .conf files that
are found in \sane\etc\sane.d

If this doesn't work with your USB scanner, please set me debug
information on using the following 'set' statements:
    set SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255 - turns on debug information for the USB 
interface
    set SANE_DEBUG_xxxxxxx=255 - where xxxxxxx = the name of your scanners
 backend - eg snapscan

then run: scanimage -v 1>image.pnm 2>debugoutput.txt
Debug information will be sent to debugoutput.txt

Please also send me details on the versions of the USB stack being run, 
the USB chipset in use and the system level, as well of course as the 
name of the scanner.

I'd like to start working on a website listing scanners that DO work.

If you'd like to support this project, please consider any of the
following:
 * donate to Netlabs - http://shop.mensys.nl/catalogue/mns_netlabs.html
 * encourage me to keep working on this and other projects by using 
Paypal to donate to paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info (Of course remove the
DESPAMadded by the moderator)
 * write and TELL ME if this works or not :)

Cheers,

Paul Smedley.