[sane-devel] Infrared channel

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

Gerhard Jaeger wrote:

> the problem is our SANE 1 standard, which defines the image format.
> We have currently only the possibility to pass RGB data to a frontend.
> 
> The solution (whenever we can start) is SANE 2 where we have a more flexible
> approach for transmitting image data to a frontend.
> It might also be possible for a backend to read the infrared channel and to
> perform i.e. the dust removal in the backend, but this functionality should
> in general be part of a frontend.
> 
> VueScans' advantage or disadvantage here is, that you have a all-in-one
> program (scanner-driver + image processor), this has never been the
> approach of SANE...
> 
> Maybe it's really time now for SANE 2, but it seems we get more and more
> problems in writing new driver code, as reverse engineering consumes too
> much time...

I think the immediate available development time is too low for SANE 2 
right now. But maybe I'm mistaken ... (I would have the time and 
motivation to convert the Avision backend but there are so many others 
as well as other applications ...)

However just adding one or more SANE_FRAME_ types would be a trivial task:

SANE_FRAME_RGBI = 5
SANE_FRAME_IR = 6

;-)

But maybe we do not want to do this to have an argument to push SANE 2 ;-)

Yours,

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