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Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
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Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#32Sane works out of the box on Linux (at least in my limited experience). There are front ends for Windows and MacOS [1]. No need for a browser in the loop. The browser is becoming more and more Emacs... An operating system that happens to be a browser.
Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
If monetization is at odds with open-source, why wouldn't potential customers just wouldn't go to VueScan, as someone posted? I was recently looking at scanners, and saw some brands directly advertise Linux support through this... which means you now have to pay subscription each year to access the expensive hardware you bought. Thankfully the Avision FB5100 states native Linux support (AFAIK, this is the only flatbe…
Any airprint/mopria certified devices don't need drivers to work on Linux, Windows, Android or macOS. https://mfi.apple.com/account/airprint-search https://mopria.org/certified-products
My recent experience shows that eSCL is way behind in terms of functionality. If I want lossless scanning from by Brother scanner, I need the proprietary drivers.
Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#34FYI, if the goal is just to use something like an old Canon LiDE scanner (pretty common/cheap devices with no more driver support) on macOS: SANE runs natively and works great: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sane-backends (comes with `scanimage` CLI tool).
That is super helpful (I may well use it myself). But I guess a web app probably reaches some non-technical users that CLI tools don't.
Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you think I’ve done something wrong according to the licences involved here, please do clarify. I had understood that open-sourcing the Linux stuff (as branches of a fork of v86, linked from the /credits page) met all relevant legal obligations, which I absolutely intend to do. More broadly, it’s unusual for me not to make everything open, and I do feel bad/conflicted about it. But, unusually, I feel like I have i…
If monetization is at odds with open-source, why wouldn't potential customers just wouldn't go to VueScan, as someone posted? I was recently looking at scanners, and saw some brands directly advertise Linux support through this... which means you now have to pay subscription each year to access the expensive hardware you bought. Thankfully the Avision FB5100 states native Linux support (AFAIK, this is the only flatbe…
My monetization idea doesn't involve charging users, and it's more on the printing side (but most of the source is shared with scanning).
Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#36Overengineering aside (which is pretty legitimate way of doing hobby tech), why not build SANE on WASM? And maybe interfacing with airplay scanners could be even easier?
Re: Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
#37Uh, what do you mean, you can't use a scanner via USB? Did they stop putting USB ports on computers? (I haven't bought a new one in a while.) Or does your OS not provide the software to connect to it?
I guess I just don't understand what problem this solves.