[sane-devel] Infrared channel

[Michal Jaegermann]

Yes, I have seen a rather short "Sane does not support the dust
removal with the Perfection 4870" here:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-September/012111.html

But does somebody at least have some idea how to read an infrared
channel?  It looks that quite a number of scanners is able to provide
that information nowadays but looking at backend sources only coolscan
and coolscan2 drivers can do that now and the situation did not change
for years.  Are there any plans on the subject?

As a matter of fact yes, I am interested in that capability for Epson
Perfection 4870.  Apparently VueScan, http://www.hamrick.com/, is able
to perform that feat on Linux as well.

   Michal

ps. Please cc any eventual answers to me too.