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OpticFilm 8200i on Linux

Plustek OpticFilm 8200i film scanner (GL128 revision, USB 07b3:1825)

open repo ↗ github.com

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claude code
evidence
public
reviewed

Christian Schaller wrote a Linux SANE backend for his Plustek film scanner: colour, gray, infrared and infrared dust removal, packaged for Fedora. He also built Negative Vibes, a GNOME app for scanning negatives and slides.

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Claude Code compared USB captures of the vendor's driver, run in a virtual machine, with the Linux driver's traffic. Claude also wrote Negative Vibes. He published the method as hw-harness.
caveats
Verified on one scanner. One frame per start, film holder positioned by hand, 35 mm only. Upstream SANE added this scanner in September 2026; he calls his backend a proof of concept.
evidence
Public code + detailed write-up.

open repo ↗ write-upnegative vibeshw-harness

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