[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

[m. allan noah]

On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe at eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +0000, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> [...]
> > > So, my questions: is there already any standard for those action? Is
> > > there any defined rule for how to name a backend parameter like
> > > "--frame-number"? Is there any way to know what feeder types are
> > > available at a given time?
> >
> > Good grief, those feelings of déja vu. are pretty strong at the moment.
> >
> > The basics are that as it stands the SANE standard is heavily geared to
> > transmission scanning on flatbed scanners. Understandable as it probably
> > accounts for 99% of users requirements.
>
> Is this problem "solved" with SANE2?

would both of you please excuse my ignorance, as i primarily deal with
ADF machines, but-

why does the front-end need to be involved in the movement at all? can
the backend not detect the additional slides and move the feeder
automatically? perhaps i am not picturing the mechanism correctly...

allan

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