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

[Jonathan Buzzard]

hfiguiere at 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 negative scanning has sufficiently different requirements
from normal run of the mill reflective flatbed scanning as to make a
front end that tries to do everything a "Jack of all trades and master
of none".

To me as a user of both, I don't particularly want to see Xsane
become bloated by trying to support slide and negative scanning.
On the otherhand we could do with a slide and negative scanning
SANE front end.

I also know that VueScan is a well respected piece of software that
many users prefer to the software provided by the scanner manufacturer,
and provides everything you need for slide and negative scanning.

Putting the two together tells me that what we need is a SANE
front end that does what VueScan does. I also suspect that most
of the magic in VueScan probably comes from much tweaking
of fairly standard algorithms to find the optimum parameters and
will take much effort to replicate. The basic user interface should
not be two hard.

JAB.

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