color scanner software for FreeBSD

[Rick Voland]

This item is a long-term feature suggestion.

One item I wish would work for FreeBSD is some inexpensive software for 
color film or flatbed scanners.  I have SANE installed and working, but 
it has limited scanner hardware support compared to the inexpensive 
($40) Vuescan which supports "more than 500 scanners and 209 digital 
camera raw files under Linux."

http://www.hamrick.com/

I was able to get Vuescan 8.3.37 to run under FreeBSD 6.0 using 
linux_base-8-8.0_14 (Redhat 8) by installing libusb.  Vuescan runs fine, 
but doesn't see the scanner devices.  (Vuescan runs fine and sees 
scanners on this same computer rebooted in Redhat 9, so it's not a 
hardware issue.)  I have linprocfs mounted, but I don't see anything 
that looked like /dev/pass4 where I've got my SCSI scanner.  I also 
looked for sd* devices.

I'm just offering this as a long-term suggestion in response to Scott 
Long's recent comments about Desktop FreeBSD.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/05/13/0740227.shtml

Thanks much for what already works.

Best wishes,

Rick Voland
rpvoland at spamcop.net