SANE backend / Tools for Canon USB Scanners
for Linux and *BSD

We need informations about other Canon scanners.
The following informations are needed.

News

5/11/2002 Linux tool for Canon 1220U scanners (module canon) now scans at 300dpi with much better quality.
3/10/2001a driver for FreeBSD is available from CVS repository. (ucanoscan/FreeBSD-driver)
Scanning tool was also updated.
2/28/2001ucanoscan was added on CVS repository.

Tools

Two programs are available.
"ct" is a test scan program for 1220U. This is a program for Linux.
"ucanoscan" is a scan utility for FB1210U. Currently it only works on FreeBSD.

Source Files

Source files are available from CVS repository.
Run cvs as below.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.canonscanner.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/canonscanner login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.canonscanner.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/canonscanner co modulename
modulename can be "canon"(ct) or "ucanoscan".
For more detail, see guide page for CVS Access.

Tools

Links

SANE backend for Canon scanners : http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~mpd/sane/sane-canon.html
Backend for SCSI scanners. Some same commands are supported in USB scanner.

USB Snoopy : http://home.jps.net/~koma/
Snoop the USB transfer information on Win98. For development of "ucanoscan", packet structure and hex dumps were logged with this tool.

FB-330P/630 : http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net
drivers for parallel scanners FB-330/630P

Project Homepage: http://canonscanner.sourceforge.net/
Project Summary: http://sourceforge.net/projects/canonscanner/

Vladimir Dergachev <volodya@users.sourceforge.net>
Iwasa Kazmi <kzmi@users.sourceforge.net>

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