scanner

hi guys i'm soon comming up with a blog on which i wud put my experiences
with mini2440.hope it wud be of some help to the new comers.kinda busy
nwadays have to complete a project and deadlines approaching.
I am  working on a mobile scanner interface with mini.i'm using the 2.6.32
kernel version and i see a scanner driver module there.well currently i'm 
even having trouble making my scanner work with my ubuntu host machine.:)

has anyone interfaced any scanner with mini2440..if so please share the
steps that you followed .even if noone has tried i know there is a lot of
geniuses out there... any guidences.

regards,
kevin

Hmm, define "Scanner"... :-)

scanner

A scanner is a device that captures images from photographic prints,
posters, magazine pages, and similar sources for computer editing and
display. Scanners come in hand-held, feed-in, and flatbed types and for
scanning black-and-white only, or color. Very high resolution scanners are
used for scanning for high-resolution printing, but lower resolution
scanners are adequate for capturing images for computer display. Scanners
usually come with software, such as Adobe's Photoshop product, that lets
you resize and otherwise modify a captured image.

Scanners usually attach to your personal computer with a Small Computer
System Interface ( SCSI ). An application such as PhotoShop uses the TWAIN
program to read in the image.

Some major manufacturers of scanners include: Epson, Hewlett-Packard,
Microtek, and Relisys.
Hope this helps..now please help me :)

luv kevin

I asked because you could also be talking about barcode scanner or radio
scanner or one or two others... :-)

Have you looked at SANE? I don't know if it can be cross compiled...
http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-usb.5.html

hmm.. i'm using my scanner with sane on my host system.Dont know what it
takes to do that on mini2440.have read quite a lot of man pages related to
sane and found out about backend and frontend stuffs.
When i plug in my scanner to mini i get some lines on the console which
tells about the scanner its product and vendor id's.So i guess mini is
detecting the scanner.Dont know how to proceed further.Guess sane doesnt
work for ARMlinux.
anyway thanks for the post. 
kevin