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Even for consumer scanners, it seems I’m helping my parents fight unmaintained proprietary firmware on Windows every few years. Eventually I just set them up wi

• jandrese 4y ago
  Sadly it seems SANE has no Hasselblad drivers at all, which probably makes sense given that these are professional devices with a very small install base. Even worse, given the high end features I suspect the firmware isn't just a clone of some other device like it is so often with scanners. Probably not too hard to reverse engineer with some skills and tools, but well beyond what a random photographer is likely to be able to do. The real shame is the company squatting on the driver source code and refusing to update it. It is supremely frustrating when companies treat the driver software--useless without the hardware for it to run--as top company secrets. The software does nothing without the hardware your company sells, so who cares if someone could "steal" it?
• stuaxo 4y ago
  That's a pain. I think SANE/TWAIN bridge is a thing.