- scan on x86, x86_64, arm and arm64
- fully open source
bropen-scan: fully open source scan frontendlibsane-brother: libsane driver, partially open source, still depends on libbrcolm and libbrscandec even if new hardware support don't use them
- Get rid of libbrcolm and libbrscandec to become fully open source, i.e. drop support of old scanners as not testable due to lack of hardware.
- Fix installation paths at least on 64-bit systems.
- You can use the
bropen-scanfrontend to test your scanner. - To add a new scanner to the list of supported devices by the driver you must add a line to
data/Brsane.iniin the [Support Model] section.
The line must be of the form:
product id,function type,model type,model name,read endpoint (dth),write endpoint (htd)
with:
product id: the USB product id of your scanner, hexadecimal format
function type: must be 214
model type: must be 1
model name: the name you want
read endpoint (dth): USB device to host endpoint, decimal format
write endpoint (htd): USB host to device endpoint, decimal format
If you don't know your product id, read endpoint (dth), write endpoint (htd), you can ask your system (lsub -v or other) or run bropen-scan and take note of its output.
for example a new line should looks like that:
0x035b,214,1,"DCP-1610W",133,4
- Only scan in 24bit color mode
make installis outdated and may be broken on your system, see [Manual Installation](##Manual Installation) for the prefered way to install the driver for now.bropen-scanuses libusb-1 andlibsane-brotheruses libusb-0.1- Scanning with
bropen-scanyou may notice a slight difference in color tints between the bmp and jpeg format, it's probably due to the yuv to rbg conversion, the jpeg format is more 'native' and should probably be the prefered format.
- Install the configuration file to
/usr/share/sane/brother/.
mkdir -p /usr/share/sane/brother/
cp data/Brsane.ini /usr/share/sane/brother/
- Add the library to libsane, you must know the libsane library directory on your system
e.g.if it's/usr/lib64/sane:
cp libsane-brother/.libs/libsane-brother.so* /usr/lib64/sane
- Make libsane load the library, you must know the sane's library configuration file location on your system
e.g.if it's/etc/sane.d/dll.conf:
echo brother >> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
- Optional, copy the library blobs, do it if you are on x86_64 and want to support hardware that don't use the new part on the driver (i.e.: scanners that don't have their
function typeset to214)
cp libbrscandec/libbrscandec.so.1.0.0 /usr/local/lib64/
cp libbrcolm/libbrcolm.so.1.0.1 /usr/local/lib64/