Getting My S2W 3300U to work

I have been trying to retire my last Windows XP machine at home.  One of the reason I was keeping it is my scanner, Benq S2W 3300U.  It is a good scanner but is not supported by anything beyond Windows XP.

Today, I got a work around for it.  I run it from my Linux virtual machine following the instructions on

http://zoffix.com/other/Installing-Benq-SZW-4300U-Scanner-on-Ubuntu

In short, in download the firmware from http://zoffix.com/snapscan/u176v046.bin and put it at /usr/share/sane/snapscan

Then use pico to update the /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf file

I looked for the line

firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin

and replace the path with the path where I stored my firmware, e.g. /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u176v046.bin

That's it.  The scanner just work in SimpleScan! Hurray!