Acknowledgements

• Sean Reifschneider of tummy.com, ltd. opened the dialog with Bell and Howell and wrote the first Open Source scanning program, bnhscan, for Bell and Howell Copiscan II scanners for Linux. He did all the trail blazing hard work with amazing efficiency and style. He provided a wonderful example of the amazingly successful results that can be acheived through open, cooperative approaches.
• Jon Postyn of JLP Computer Enterprises Corporation was a key player in putting together the imaging solution for our client in New York City which allowed us to get into the document imaging solutions arena on Linux. His vast experience in imaging solutions on other platforms was invaluable in providing the confidence to continue forward when challenges were met along the way. Also, he and his staff at JLP provided a warm and cozy home to me (and the scanner) during development.
• David Mosberger and the rest of the SANE development team have done some great work in bringing a sound architectural approach to scanning in the Open Source arena. The SANE effort has made great strides in bringing together various programming efforts and providing a common framework which allows the whole to be even greater than the sum of the parts.
• The developers and maintainers of GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) and the GIMP. The GTK+ puts an attractive GUI face on the scanning frontends and provides a solid and flexible API for handling the dynamic nature of the GUI necessary to expose the variable functionality of SANE backends. Also, the GIMP is great for creating graphics for our web pages.