[sane-devel] Scanning with 16 bits color depth (2 bytes/color)

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Nicolas <nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr> writes:

> So my question is: I know Sane standard defines image format to be RGB,
> 8 bits/color.

Not completely correct.  See below.

> But is it possible to request a Sane frontend to get a 16 bits/color
> image format and deal with that, or do I have to transform this 48 bits
> image format into 24 bits in the backend, before returning the image
> data to the frontend ?