[Printing-architecture] IPP Scanning: GSoC project for a SANE module for IPP-based driverless scanning?

[Till Kamppeter]

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On 01/03/2017 02:31 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> <mailto:till.kamppeter at gmail.com>> wrote:

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>> Is the IPP scanning standard already an approved standard?
>
> Yes, otherwise it wouldn't have been assigned a PWG standard number...
>

OK. Thanks.

>> Are there already scanners or multi-function printers which do IPP
>> scanning?
>
> Nobody has come forward to report on this, and I haven't seen any in the
> wild.  It was prototyped by Xerox...
>

Let's hope they will come out with devices any time soon.

>> Is there a list of models?
>>
>> Is there some free software which emulates an IPP scanner (like the
>> ippserver utility of CUPS emulates an IPP Everywhere printer)?
>
> Not at present.
>

So a feature request for CUPS' "ippserver" utility would be to make it 
emulate a multi-function printer with scanner (possibility to 
activate/deactivate the print and scan functions of the virtual IPP 
device by command line options). One could have a directory with 
printable files on the machine running ippserver and if a client scans 
it gets files from this directory.

    Till