Bug 6217 - Limited scanner redirection using local drives (Windows client)
Summary: Limited scanner redirection using local drives (Windows client)
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: PC Unknown
: P2 Normal
Target Milestone: 4.12.0
Assignee: Pierre Ossman
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Depends on: 6207
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Reported: 2017-04-04 08:36 CEST by Peter Åstrand
Modified: 2020-02-25 13:11 CET (History)
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Description Peter Åstrand cendio 2017-04-04 08:36:33 CEST
This is the Windows part of bug 6207. The main thing that is missing is a scanning utility, corresponding to the SANE "scanimage". On Windows, the scanning API used to be "TWAIN", but this has been abandoned. Instead, you should use "WIA": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Image_Acquisition

Some ideas:

1) Use scanimage. Implement the SANE API on top of WIA. As far as I know, there's no such bridge (only for the other way around; https://github.com/mback2k/wiasane

2) Port scanimage to Windows/WIA. 

3) Use some other tool. The most promising one seems to be naps2.console.exe from https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2 . 

Solution 3) is probably the easiest one, at least if we can accept to ship prebuilt binaries. However, that would mean that the scan options would not be the same between the Linux and Windows client.
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman cendio 2020-02-25 13:11:37 CET
We don't do limited.

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