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From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse)
Subject: EPSON PhotoPC-500 with FreeBSD?
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Keywords: twain - interface - PhotoPC
Organization: individual - paris - france
Message-ID: <EA0GvA.FG@sphynx.fdn.fr>
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 09:54:46 GMT
Summary: how to interface a digital camera w/ *BSD
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Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40717

Hi all !

I'm about to purchase a digital camera (EPSON PhotoPC-500) but I wonder
if someone has written a userland application to download the snapshots
from the camera via the serial port.

Epson says the PhotoPC is providing a "twain" driver for Windoze, but I
don't have windoze installed on my system (and don't want to, neither!).
Is there any brave soul out there who already did this (even for a
different brand/model of camera) ?.

If not, I'm willing to write it myself but I don't know the protocol used
to transfer images from the camera to the host (FreeBSD box actually).
What I need is either a source code, either some documentation or some
pointers to it.

TIA,
Philippe.
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