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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
--
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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*
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
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
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.
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
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