[sane-devel] Help on Xsane.

[Jon Chambers]

Hi Rupesh,

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Rupesh Tarpara wrote:
> Thanks for the information allan, I have one more doubt.
> The SANE standard (section 3.2) just tells about image transmission, it did
> not gave me details about image file format.
> Different devices have different file formats for RAW image such as
> raf (Fuji)
> .crw .cr2 (Canon)
> [...]

The SANE API knows none of these, just raw RGB or greyscale.  Take another 
look at the spec - the information really is all there.

If your scanner sends you some special format then the SANE backend must 
translate it to raw data, eg: the dell1600n_net backend receives colour 
scans in JPEG format for which it uses libjpeg to convert to RGB data.

cheers,
Jon

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