Writing a film scanner's Linux driver with Claude Code

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Christian Schaller used Claude Code with a Windows VM capturing USB traffic to write a working SANE driver for a Plustek film scanner, infrared channel included, plus an app for scanning negatives.

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Posted byChristian Schaller (blogs.gnome.org)
DateOct 15, 2026
Category🛠️ Building apps
Found viaHacker News

Summary written by ToolPassed from the public post. Claims are the poster’s; we haven’t reproduced this.

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