Kodak Pakon scanner updates

There has been some progress recently when it comes to the Kodak Pakon scanner, of which I have the F135+ model.

First off, Kai Kaufman has done what I previously thought impossible, he has reverse engineered the Pakon windows driver and made a new homebrew version of it that supports modern 64-bit windows. Read the entire story here if you are technically minded. Warning, it is very technical.

Here is the download link to the drivers.

Second, I have released a new version of my Pakon Raw converter (Windows only at this point). It has some important fixes to a few bugs, but it will work nicely together with TLXClientDemo that you will be using if you use the above approach.

Thirdly, I have been working on a new client for Windows altogether, so you don’t have to use TLXClientDemo. It is just called the PakonClient currently, and it cannot scan anything yet. So far I have just done some research into how TLX works and checked that it is in fact possible to write a new client for this. My hope is that it will work kinda like PSI does, but has support for raw files, works nicely on modern Windows and also has a bit more modern design sensibilities instead of that Windows 95 look that PSI currently has. Here is a link to that.