<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:36 PM Sean Greenslade <<a href="mailto:sean@seangreenslade.com">sean@seangreenslade.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi, all. I recently picked up an Epson ES-50 sheet-feed scanner. My<br>
intent is to use it for receipt scanning, so I tried it out with a <br>
~700 mm long receipt and found that it would error out at around 450 mm<br>
into the scan. The manual claims the scanner is capable of a max of 72<br>
inch document length, so I started poking around in the epsonds backend<br>
code. Something that jumped out at me was the eds_set_adf_area<br>
function. It seems that for this particular scanner, three ADF size<br>
values are reported: AREA, AMIN, and AMAX (in epsonds-cmd.c around line<br>
445 on current git master). The eds_set_adf_area function is called with<br>
the values from AREA, which limits the document length to 14 inches. I'm<br>
assuming AREA is just meant to be a default value, but if anyone has any<br>
deeper insight into the meaning, I'd be interested to know.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looking at that code, AMIN and AMAX are pretty much ignored.</div><div>What do you get for all of the AREA/AMIN/AMAX parameters?</div><div>Perhaps we can figure out what they mean and code up something a little better?<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
The AMAX values reported seemed to match the manual's reported 72-inch<br>
maximum, so on a whim, I just moved the eds_set_adf_area call to the<br>
AMAX section. After recompiling, I was able to scan my long receipt no<br>
problem.<br>
<br>
Now I'm wondering if there is any downside to using the max ADF size? If<br>
not, would you consider the attached patch?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe that we have a current maintainer for this backend although we do get some submissions from Epson Japan now and then for new models. I wonder if they would be willing to shed some light on this or provide us some documentation on this aspect of the protocol?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph <br></div></div></div>