[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

[Jonathan Buzzard]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

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>>   but not a scanning application either,
> 
> Come on.

In the context of scanning negatives and films using high end scanners
xsane is not scanning application but a toy.

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>>   its results are useless. Take this as a fact which we can debate
>>   elsewhere some other time. I am talking expensive film scanners here,
>>   not some 0 8 15 flatbed.
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> I'm not sure if it's really xsane's fault or if backend support for
> film scanners in sane(-backends) is just week.

I think I outlined this a couple of years ago. Basically the sane api
simply does not have provision to communicate everything required to
talk to even a prosumer film scanner let alone a professional one. For
starters there is no provision for IR channel data, multisample
scanning, focusing, and batch scanning i.e. I have just inserted a
holder with six negatives scan 2 through 4. Or I have just inserted an
APS film please scan negatives 1 through 6 and 12 through 30 while I
have a cup of coffee.

Then we require a front end to deal with all these issues, and all the
other bits and pieces like comprehensive negative colour correction.

However as far as I am aware zero progress has been made on any of these
fronts, even though IR channel provision has made it's way into sub
100GBP flatbed scanners in the meantime.

JAB.

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