[Wine] Re: Can I Install a scanner in wine

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Emegra wrote:
> I have just installed Wine in order to use a couple of programs i can't find Linux alternatives for and was wondering if it possible to install a scanner in Wine, I have a Xerox 4800 flatbed scanner which has no Linux driver available and is the only piece of hardware i can't get to run in Linux, I have the Windows installation disk which includes scanning software, any help or advice would be much appreciated.
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Wine's TWAIN forwards calls to SANE, so if there's no SANE driver for your scanner, it probably won't work in Wine. I say "probably," because a couple of years ago someone did report getting a network (not USB) scanner to work with its bundled Windows software by using native twain.dll. That's unlikely to work with a USB scanner, but it may be worth a shot before going out and buying a new scanner that does have a working SANE driver.