[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

[Gerard Klaver]

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 13:31 -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> Quite a few recent scanners have the ability to output jpeg data,
> including most fujitsus. I have been contracted to extend sane to
> support this capability. I can keep the modifications private, or i
> can try to get them included in sane proper (which i prefer).
> 
> Therefore, I have reviewed the sane-devel mailing lists for the past
> several years, and tried to come up with a plan based on those
> discussions. Many of them center around Sane2, and proposals such a
> Mime or Textual frame-type determination. Given the speed at which
> Sane2 has moved, (most of these discussions are 5 years old!), and the
> relative complexity of those approaches, i am suggesting a more
> trivial alternative, specific new frame types.
> 
> In all, i found mention of only 5 additional types of data sane does
> not handle well:
> 
> JPEG, IR, ICC profile, EXIF data, and compressed TIF (G4 fax).
> 
> Really, it seems like only the first three get repeated mentions in
> the archives. I dont know much about ICC, so my proposal is therefore
> quite simple. Rather than continue to wait for sane2, i am prepared to
> extend sane1 with 2 new choices: SANE_FRAME_JPEG and SANE_FRAME_RGBI.
> I would try to leave enough framework for others to add ICC and FAX
> support.
> 
> yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to
> understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf
> (though i probably wont support all the possible conversions). it will
> also require (in the case of compression) that the front-end be able
> to deal with variable length data.
> 
> comments, requests, flames? :)
> 
> allan
> 
> -- 
> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
> 

Nice, SANE_FRAME_JPEG option is usefull for xcam, variable length data,
for some devices a larger buf size is enough (scanimage -B or xcam -B
option), i don't know how much effort it will be to extend xcam, but it
sounds interresting.

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Gerard Klaver