This is cool. I had to do something similar to get an old Epson scanner to work. It astonished me that there are no drivers for it on the Epson website, no gen

This is cool. I had to do something similar to get an old Epson scanner to work. It astonished me that there are no drivers for it on the Epson website, no generic or legacy Windows drivers. And this was a serious hum-dinger of a scanner which is still much better than a brand new Epson because, shockingly, it's really hard to buy a decent scanner these days. They're ludicrously badly made unless you spend many thousands. Most of the high end ones are aimed at office scanning, with automatic page feed and high throughout etc. If you're an artist, you're screwed. Obviously the scanner works on Linux, but my wife is the one who needs to use it. So I hacked together a Raspberry Pi, a heavily customised PHPSane and an ancient Apple iPad (that is similarly unsupported, with almost no software available in the store). The pi boots in about 5 seconds. Now anyone on the house WiFi can scan over the network or walk right up and use the web interface via the iPad which is mounted beside the scanner. What was really enjoyable about the project was that I got to use one of my old Pis and a tablet that was heading for e-waste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fw7bZoPyVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fw7bZoPyVU