Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

<< Home Yes We Scan: backstory and how it works Do you have an old USB scanner that your computer can’t talk to? If so, this is the web app for you. And this is how it came about. But first, here’s a short demo of yes-we-scan.app in action (at 3x actual speed): It starts with a printervention I started out wanting to make an old Canon photo printer usable by my parents and in-laws. So I made printervention.app, which I wrote about before. While working on that app, I remembered I also had