[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-19 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
m. allan noah wrote: On Dec 18, 2007 12:37 PM, Jonathan Buzzard jonathan at buzzard.me.uk wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco giuseppe at eppesuigoccas.homedns.org wrote: Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi all, I am slowly working on the coolscan2 backend and I am looking at tiffscan for batch scanning. What I see is that any frontend that would drive a batch scan should manage different type of feeder and pages. Probably the easier

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco giuseppe at eppesuigoccas.homedns.org wrote: Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] So, my questions

[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

2007-12-17 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Ren? Rebe wrote: Hi, now that was a fast reply :-) On 17.12.2007, at 10:31, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:29:03 +0100 Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hey Alessandro, I just spotted the infrared option. I wonder how you output the infra- red data? In the

[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

2006-01-08 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: [snip] but not a scanning application either, Come on. In the context of scanning negatives and films using high end scanners xsane is not scanning application but a toy. its results are useless. Take this as a fact which we can debate elsewhere

[sane-devel] Help on HP Phostosmart S20

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
evi...@vodafone.es said: I am trying to write a driver for the HP Photosmart S20/S20xi photo scanner (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/hps20xi ). The way this scanner works under Windows is that there is a .DLL that converts the HP SCL commands into a very complex USB protocol. I would

[sane-devel] Canoscan 2700f

2004-02-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
jonat...@cs.keele.ac.uk said: (I do smile when sane lists the 2700F driver status as good when in order to get it working you have to patch and recompile the kernel. Hardly something most users will consider an easy option) Generally speaking the driver status refers to the quality and

[sane-devel] Sane/Xsane and high resolution color negative film scans

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Please don't cc me directly and mail to the list. I clearly subscribe to the list and getting two copies of the same email is anyoing. hfigui...@teaser.fr said: According to Jonathan Buzzard jonat...@buzzard.me.uk: You might want to consider looking at Vuescan. It is not free

[sane-devel] Sane/Xsane and high resolution color negative film scans

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
hfigui...@teaser.fr said: According to Jonathan Buzzard jonat...@buzzard.me.uk: In a perfect world there would be a open source equivalent of Vuescan. In the mean time it is a possible solution for large numbers of people. Over 90% of desktop/workstation computers in use are x86 derivatives

[sane-devel] Sane/Xsane and high resolution color negative film scans

2004-02-01 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
gnny...@swissonline.ch said: I am a semiprofessional photographer and consultant and would like to get a better understanding of the Sane/Xsane capabilities for my area of interest. This would mean to scan color negs and color slides ( 4x5 ) with Sane/Xsane. Fortunatelly, one of my scanners

[sane-devel] USB/Parallel Scanner pages

2004-01-10 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Due to problems with the ISP that was hosting my domain these pages have probably been unavailable for at least the last week and remain so. I have managed to wrestle one of my domains from this bunch of jokers and you should now be able to find the pages at

[sane-devel] Digital ICE support

2003-12-26 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
l...@xs4all.nl said: I recall that someone suggested that there should be something like a mid-end (like saned) that does the correction. This would keep front-ends simple and provide a moer uniform way to access features like IR-correction. While a filmsane front end is of course still

[sane-devel] Digital ICE support

2003-12-23 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
l...@xs4all.nl said: I recall that someone suggested that there should be something like a mid-end (like saned) that does the correction. This would keep front-ends simple and provide a moer uniform way to access features like IR-correction. = A front end for scanning negatives and

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
jante_n...@yahoo.co.uk said: What I often do is scan each page and add as jpeg to a word processing document. This works but is time consuming and boring and technically unneccesary. Yuck. In general for a text document this is a horrid way of doing it. The vast majority of pages are best

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
k...@khk.net said: As Henning and Andras have suggested, converting scans to a PDF document is trivial (even though I would not use TeX for this), appending to a PDF is a totally different matter. This is a pretty complex job. You need a PDF library that allows you to read a PDF file and

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
an...@pfeiffer.edu said: the problem is the freaking huge filesizes you will get. perhaps you should instead look at one of the multi-image in single file formats, like tiff. are you doing bw, gray, or color scans? Depends on the page. If the page has no colour on it I do a greyscale scan and

[sane-devel] Digital ICE support

2003-12-01 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: That's good news. I'm quite sure it's a software-only solution, i.e. one can apply it to the older Coolscans as well. Or they have switched to a longer IR wavelength in the scanners, which seems more probable to me. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard

[sane-devel] Digital ICE support

2003-12-01 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Note: please don't cc or reply directly. and...@users.sourceforge.net said: Agreed. I think there should be a sanei_* library that allows the code to be used in frontends or meta-backends, whichever solution is best. (Just think of a network scanner that is accessed by a handheld device --

[sane-devel] Epson gt-8000 transparency experiment

2003-11-27 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
bartbuiti...@xs4all.nl said: It occurred to me that if it is possible to project a negative on the scanners glass pane using a slide accessory, it might also work to use a photo magnifier (I mean the thing used to print in a (BW) darkroom, an Opemus 11 to be precise) with some kind of half

[sane-devel] Back-end for Minolta DSE5400?

2003-10-21 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
henn...@meier-geinitz.de said: http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html Alternatively if you have the scanner already and need a Linux based solution in the short term, try Vuescan it claims to support the scanner. I suspect as the scanner is a Firewire/USB combo, that it is basically a SCSI

[sane-devel] Minolta DiMAGE Film Scanners

2003-09-23 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
jjh-sane-de...@vieorhythms.com said: I'm deciding on a film scanner and it appears that either the Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual III or the Scan Elite II will meet my needs. From the SANE supported devices page it looks like the Elite II has an Avision backend and from the SANE/Avision backend FAQ

[sane-devel] [long] Want someone help me about Canon FS4000US USB/SCSI driver ?

2003-08-09 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
eric.bach...@free.fr said: Yes, my sentence wasn't correct. There's no free software supporting this scanner yet. But I've forgotten to say I've already tested this software (Vuescan) and won't be able to do it work (with scsi bus). Vuescan don't even see it...So Money is not the problem

[sane-devel] [long] Want someone help me about Canon FS4000US USB/SCSI driver ?

2003-08-07 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
eric.bach...@free.fr said: The first reason why I'm here is because I've got a CanonScan FS4000US (think USB and SCSI), and this hardware doesn't work yet on Linux. That is a factually incorrect statement. If you are willing to part with money, then Vuescan supports this scanner under Linux.

[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo

2003-08-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
pylva...@cs.tut.fi said: Has anyone produced reasonable scans of negatives with Epson Perfection 1260? I don't have windows, so I don't really know what the best this scanner can do is, but xsane produces unacceptable results. That entirely depends on your idea of reasonable. Firstly there is

[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo

2003-08-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: This is a SANE email list. People do not usually come here to ask questions about other pieces of software, and certainly not to be recommended a piece of _commercial_ software. Your statement that good negative scans can only be produced with VueScan under

[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo

2003-08-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
k...@khk.net said: Have you tried EPSON Kowa's IScan? You can download it from this link: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html Haven't you heard, you are not allowed to mention any scanning software that is not SANE on the mailing list anymore. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard

[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo

2003-08-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
henn...@meier-geinitz.de said: [SNIP] I've asked multiple times for concrete proposals how the standard can be changed or appended. Each time there hasn't been any response. With concrete proposals I mean patches to SANE2 or at least the text of the to-be-added well-known options. If I

[sane-devel] Dusting-off with the Gimp/Coolscan2

2003-05-20 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
georges.r...@pacageek.org said: Why don't you change gamma, to dust off? That shows a profound lack of understanding of what is going on. Changing the gamma setting is *not* the same as using a separate infrared scan of the image to find out where the dust is, and then using a special algorithm

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de said: Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls. As far as I know, the Canon FS2710S is such a case. But it scans 3x12 bits, and so it is OK to do the gamma correction in the backend and then truncate to 3x8 bit. The Canon FS2710S is *not* a

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de said: Why? Because you are chucking useful information away, that you have just spent hundreds of pounds on a specialist film scanner to acquire, would be the first answer. First of all, truncation is an option, not a must. Second, you usually want to end up with

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
hfigui...@teaser.fr said: You would have me as a tester. Not sure about contributing as I'd not h ave enough spare time. Anyway if you want to think cross-platform, I'd be happy to help on that... I am not offering to write it, just pointing out what to me is the obvious. Slide and

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-18 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: Just an idea -- since this is bound to become an issue with more than just the Coolscan2 backend, how about adding a preference memory feature to xsane? You could save multiple sets of settings for the same backend and recall them any time. This way you could

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-17 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: I think you have a strong bias towards VueScan. That's fine, but it doesn't mean we have to give up coding to make things better. And it certainly doesn't mean SANE is by definition inferior to VueScan. I have a strong bias towards fully functioning software

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
petter.sund...@findus.dhs.org said: I am thinking of buying a film scanner. I really really want one. Fair enough However, there seems to be few in the affordable range (around and below) ~400$ that are supported by SANE. Without knowing about support, I had considered the Minolta Dual

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: Orange mask: at least with Coolscan2, this one is trivial: adjust the exposure times of the R, G, B channels so that the space between two frames comes out exactly white. If you then scan with these settings and invert, all colours will be correct, and you

[sane-devel] OT: Scanning 6cm x 6cm Dias

2003-02-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
k...@khk.net said: Especially if you have mid and large format slides or negatives, using a flatbed is a much more cost effictive solution, for large format you may not even be able to find a dedicated film scanner (that is as long as we are not talking about drum scanners). Minolta Scan

[sane-devel] OT: Scanning 6cm x 6cm Dias

2003-01-27 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
till.kamppe...@gmx.net said: A good choice is probably the Epson Perfection 2450 Photo. It comes with frames for 35 mm negatives, 35 mm slides, 6x9 cm negatives/ slides (here also fit 6x6 negatives/slides), and even for 4x5 inch negatives/slides. The scanner works with the epson driver of

[sane-devel] How many scanners on an ieee1394 bus

2003-01-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
and...@users.sourceforge.net said: As many as these busses take, in principle. There might be a limit on IEEE1394 simply because you run out of sg devices after a while, but I'm not sure what the limit is. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure how many devices you can have on an IEEE1394 or

[sane-devel] SANE2 and filmscanners

2002-12-21 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
oliver.ra...@rauch-domain.de said: A backend should make an sane option for this feature. There is no need to make a well known option for this. There should at least be a recommended name for the option. It would be silly for one backend to call it multipass and the next multiple_passes and

[sane-devel] Drivers

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
gerh...@gjaeger.de said: [SNIP] Good idea! We should do this and add all info about these devices we have. The only problem we might have is, that the production of new devices which are unsupported is probably much higher than the ones we are able to support... So in general it's up to each

[sane-devel] Drivers

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
henn...@meier-geinitz.de said: Ok, see below. I would welcome if you not only solicite patches/ updates but actually include them in your page. No pun intended, but I've sent 2 or three updates that haven't been included ever (without a comment from you). I'll include them again in this mail.

[sane-devel] Epson gt-6000

2002-12-10 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
are...@udc.es said: I would like to know if it is possible to make an epson GT-6000 parallel port scanner working without the parallel port interace that comes with the scanner. I believe you can. It was nothing more than a standard bi-directional parallel port which where not universal at

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: image data format

2002-12-09 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
oliver.ra...@rauch-domain.de said: But we have to keep in mind that sane is not only made for scanners. There may be e.g. a telescope that produces a visible image (may be RGB, may be CMYK) and also additional infrared or ultra-violett data. We still need a way to transmit such data! The

[sane-devel] USB scanners page.

2002-10-02 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
I have just uploaded an update to the USB Scanners under Linux. I would be grateful if people could check the page out an let me know of any errors and or omissions. I would also like to hear of suggestions for a couple of scanners that are well supported under Linux and are *currently*

[sane-devel] Re: My scanner is not yet supported :-(

2002-09-30 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
gene_hesk...@iolinc.net said: What would be the chances that thing is a usb device internally, and that the usb-parallel adaptor is in fact a seperate item that could be bypassed by a knowledgeable bit of hacking? No it is a parallel port scanner that has been turned into a USB scanner by

[sane-devel] test backend: 1 bit RGB data for grid pattern

2002-09-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
dav...@mostang.com said: Never mind my comments. I missed the fact that you're talking about 1-bit RGB data only (not 1-bit monochrome, which does make a lot of sense). I think I added 1-bit RGB just because the Mustek scanner could do it, but it always was a mystery to me why 1-bit RGB data

[sane-devel] MacOS client

2002-04-19 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
ranya...@lineone.net said: Quite understandable, but as a member of the Association For Free Software, I cannot recommend it as a tool unless it is Free and Free, so I was wondering if there is an alternative. Try this page for NSane, which is an OpenStep interface for SANE.

[sane-devel] pale negative scans

2001-08-04 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
twa...@redhat.com said: I have a scanner - Epson Perfection 1240U (usb) - which works very well with sane/xsane for ordinary scanning, but when I'm scanning negatives (photos) the result is useless because it is very pale. I still have to scan my negatives in Win2000. Should be possible