USB Scanner driver

[Manavendra Nath Manav]

Hi Oliver,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012, 09:32:13 schrieb Manavendra Nath Manav:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have connected Metrologic USB Scanner, but Fedora is not able to attach a
>> driver to it. Is there a generic USB scanner driver which I can associate
>
> Apart from a few very old scanners which are repackaged SCSI devices,
> scanners are handled by libusb. There is no kernel driver involved.
>
>> with it to make it work? This scanner is HID compliant device. Can't I make
>> usbhid driver to make the scanner work? The sources from Metrologic said
>> that it should work in USB Keyboard emulation mode. How to enable this?
>
> Keyboard emulation is a bad idea. You need to find the correct backend of SANE
> for your scanner.
>
>        Regards
>                Oliver

In my Barcode scanner device SANE utility is not supported according
to the documentation of Metrologic. Is it correct that SANE is
predominately used for image capture functionality? how we can use it
for barcode scanning?

-- 
Manavendra Nath Manav