PROJECTS (2002-02-02)

Here is a list of projects that various people have expressed interest
in.  Before starting working on one of these projects, it may be a
good idea to get in touch with the relevant people. Please also read
the files AUTHORS and README for projects that are included into the
SANE-package. For frontends, look at the sane-frontends package.

Status    description
--------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
wanted    Somebody would like to have this feature but can't do it himself.
planned   Only plans but no code yet.
wip       Work in progress. There is (more or less) working code. For details,
          look at the web page or contact the author.

Backends:
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Canon 1220U USB scanner (wip)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/canonscanner/

Canon FB330P, FP630P (maybe FB620P/FB320P) parport/USB scanners (wip)
Simon Krix <kinsei@dingoblue.net.au>
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~kinsei/scanner/

Canon FB620S flatbed scanner and FS2710 film scanner
ftp://stthd0.pc.uni-koeln.de/pub/canon-1.09.tar.gz
Ulrich Deiters <ukd@xenon.pc.Uni-Koeln.DE>

Canon N670U USB scanner support [alpha/developers only] (wip)
http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/ (look for merlin* files)
Gunther Mayer <Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de>

Coolscan2 backend: support for LS-40, LS-4000, and LS-8000 (wip)
http://coolscan2.sourceforge.net/

E3 USB chipset support (e.g. Genius Vivid Pro USB, Colorado USB 19200,
Visioneer OneTouch 7600, IBM IdeaScan 2000 USB) (wip)
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/stevenel/scanner/

Fujitsu M3091DCd support (wip)
Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org>
http://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/software/sane/

GT-68xx SANE Backend e.g. for Mustek BearPaw 1200TA and 2400TA (wip)
http://www.mivlgu.murom.ru/~vsu/gt68xx/

Handheld scanner support: e.g. for Mustek CG-6000 (wip)
ftp://www.cs.ubishops.ca/pub/lhii/

Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2200c
http://scanjet2200c.sourceforge.net/

Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300C / 3400C and 4300C (wip)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend

IBM 2456 and Ricoh IS-410 support (wip)
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ibm-backend/

Primax parallel port scanners (wip)
http://primax.sourceforge.net/

Relisys Scorpio Super 3 SCSI II (planned)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~plowman/
Mark Plowman <sane-devel@plowman.xs4all.nl>

Sceptre S1200 scanner support (wip)
http://www.geocities.com/harikus2000/sane/sane.html
Frank Zago <fzago@greshamstorage.com>

Test backend (similar to pnm backend, but doesn't read files) (planned)
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> et. al.

Video for Linux 2 (wip)
http://sane-v4l2.inodes.org/

Visioneer OneTouch 8600: viceo (wip)
http://www.littlecms.com/iphoto/otlinux.htm



SANE on non-Unix platforms:
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BeOS port (wip)
http://www.intuiware.com/Products/BeSANE/index.html

OS/2 support (wip)
http://home.tiscalinet.de/fbakan/sane-os2.htm

win32 port of SANE (planned)
Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE>


Misc:
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SaneTwain: TWAIN compliant datasource which is able to connect to a SANE
           scanner backend.
http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/

WinSANE: Win32 TWAIN DLL to interface with scanners supported by SANE over the
         network. (old)
http://www.integramicro.com/winsane/

TWAIN interface for xsane-win32 (planned)
Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE>
