[sane-devel] Probleme with time during multipage scanning

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 14:42:59 UTC 2009


You have not said what scanner you are using? It might be possible if
it has buttons to modify the backend to wait for button presses
between scans.

allan

2009/4/29 Jérôme Avond <j.avond at axolys.fr>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> (French so don't mind langage's errors...)
>
> Our scanner is in a different room with all the stuff for printers, we
> usually need multipage scanning and there are three problems :
>
>   1. For the start, even we try to beat Carl Lewis on 50 meters, even
>      we ask someone to help use (with shouting : "OK GO ON, start this
>      $%## scan!", no way with customer on site), even we go with our
>      pages first then go back to computer then go back to scan...
>   2. During the scan of 10 or 20 pages, you'd better be a shaolin monk
>      and fell like the squirrel to be as sharp as him.
>   3. The end is ok but you always find pages with bad scan and you have
>      to redo it sometimes twice because your squirrel feeling is gone...
>
> The thing is that with _a timing for start_ AND _a timing between scans_
> there will be no problems...
>
> Thus we could do easily a scanimage script (that's what we actually had
> done, before the throwing of the scanner througt the window...) but I
> had read somewhere that OpenSource and FreeSoftware needs to point out
> the willing of there users... :) JOKE!
>
> To be honest, we just need to see where we could add this feature among
> the amount of code, in fact where is the "do scan" function...
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> Cordialement,
>
> Jérôme Avond
>
> j.avond at axolys.com
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