After getting a Nikon Coolscan 5000ED 35mm film scanner I tried using it with the coolscan2 SANE backend. That, however, does not support the scanner although it claims the USB device for it.
Because the coolscan2 code is very crufty I decided to clean it up and in that process removed support for all other Coolscan scanners it supported. Hence, the result is the ls5000 backend. I would welcome patches to fold support for the older scanners back into the ls5000 backend so that the coolscan2 backend can be replaced completely, but I do not have any such scanners.
Code
The code to the backend is available via git:
git clone http://git.sipsolutions.net/ls5000.git
You can see it in gitweb.
Requirements
- libusb (development headers)
- libsane (development headers)
Installation
- For Debian systems, install the package libsane-extras, it includes this backend.
- Other systems please see the README file.