[sane-devel] SANE2 standard proposal

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Oliver Schirrmeister wrote:
> some scanners support hardware compression, for example jpeg or
> CCITT FAX3. 
> I think there should be a well known option 'compression' with
> values 'fax3', 'fax4', 'jpeg', others?

No objection. But you should go into more detail, what that option
does. The real image format is described by the frame type so the
option is used to ask the backend to use SANE_FRAME_MIME with one of
the formats mentioned in your list?

Bye,
  Henning