CanoScan 5000F Driver Support

[Arne Wörner]

> Is there any way to get CanoScan 5000F to work?
>
I do not see any.

There is a project for that device, but they did not even release 
beta source code up to now:
   https://gna.org/projects/canoscan5000F

When I plugged in my Canon LIDE20 scanner,
1. I decided to make the FreeBSD uscanner driver to like LIDE20
scanners
    I used usbdevs -v to find out the vendor and product code
    in /sys/dev/usb/usbdevs there is a list of devices
    in /sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c there is a list of scanners
      (I updated both lists)
2. I decided to use sane from ports
    /usr/ports/graphics/*sane*
3. I decided to use the plustek driver after consulting the sane
driver search engine:
   generic search form:
      http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl
   in your case:
      http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-5000f.html

Then you can use sane-find-scanner to see, if sane finds your
scanner.

And you can try xsane to see, if it can scan...

-Arne



		
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