[sane-devel] ICC support for SANE

[Julien BLACHE]

Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:

Hi,

> The (external) epkowa backend applies a colour correction profile to the

"external" is the key ;)

>>  - machines that send data with samples > 8 bits
>
> The epson, epson2 and epkowa backends can do 16 bit sample scans.
> Moreover, the SANE spec explicitly says that 16 is a valid bit depth.

Yes, but I'm not sure how well this is supported by frontends. XSane
supports it but then saving in at least some formats goes down to
8bit.

Aren't there also some machines that can return 12bit data?

JB.

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