[sane-devel] Document scanner, hardware recommendations.

Johannes Groedem johs at netfonds.no
Thu Feb 19 15:41:26 UTC 2009


* "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>> It's close enough for me.  Who knows how they measure these things.
>> My measurement was "time scanadf", basically.  It was done actually
>> feeding the papers through the scanner before scanadf exited, so
>> it's not entirely unimaginable that there is a bit of overhead in
>> actually transferring and writing the scans to disk.
> I wonder how fast it will go if you enable jpeg compression? You
> might need updated scanadf (or the scanimage that comes with
> sane-backends cvs)

About the same as uncompressed PNM.  (Also tried 200 DPI now, with no
noticeable difference in speed from 300 DPI.)

The computer I'm testing this on is a Core 2 E8500 3.16GHz, by the
way.

-- 
Johannes Grødem




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