Re: SnapScan firmware for SANE.

On 8/16/07, Dylan Griffiths <dylang@thock.com> wrote:

> > The reason I passed it on to him was precisely because of that dopey
> > binary blob; I contacted Agfa and they aren't willing (able?) to allow
> > further redistribution of it and I didn't switch to Ubuntu from XP for
> > things that 'just don't work' out of the box ;)
>
> Yea, you'd think copyright on a piece of software that's tied to
> hardware would be a bit more flexible. Apple lets people download MacOS
> System 7 pretty freely (after all, how else will you run an old LC475
> [that isn't a BSD or Linux]?). Why not the firmware you need to use the
> hardware the companies sold you already?

Welcome to the world of proprietaria :(

This story sounds familiar though...
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

;)

> The drivers I got from Agfa were less than useful. On the Mac side,
> they have a DMG of an old Classic-based/OS X wrapped thing that won't
> work on my machine. On the Windows side, it's a simple TWAIN driver
> that didn't pop a .bin file out anywhere I could find. On the Mac side,
> browsing into the .app package and seaching yielded no bin file. I was
> very happy when I found a website with the files available already.

Here's how to do it:

Go to:
http://static.agfa.com/digicam_scanner_drivers/

Select:
-> Scanners
-> SnapScan
-> SnapScan e20

Download:
ScanWise 2.0.0.9 - e20 .exe

Run:
cabextract 2.0.0.9-e20.exe
cd Drivers/
ls *.bin

Voila:
snap1212p.bin Snape22.bin Snape42.bin SnapScan 1212U_2.bin
snap1212u.bin Snape25.bin Snape50.bin
Snape10.bin snape26.bin Snape52.bin
snape20.bin Snape40.bin SnapScan 1212P_2.bin

:-)

CK
Received on Thu Aug 16 12:26:12 2007