[sane-devel] C#/Mono FrontEnd Wrapper for scanimage / scanadf

[Alejandro Imass]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Sawyer
<christoofar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I had been looking for a long time for a Mono binding for SANE but most of
> my efforts have been fruitless (probably because none exist! :-)  so I
> started writing my own.
>
> If anybody wants to help me, I put the source here:
> http://code.google.com/p/mono-sane/
>
> The code is capable of reading the scanner list from scanimage, interpreting
> the configuration options, performing a one-pass scan with or without
> scanimage options.
>
> It shells out to scanimage and collects its output from there.  I'm
> expanding it as I go along since I'm using it to experiment with forms
> recognition.  I'm working on ADF, thread-safety, delegate callbacks for
> asynchronous scanning right now and hope to finish it soon.
>

Dunno much about Mono but you should be using the SANE API directly.
It has of course native binding to C, but surely there must be a way
of loading shared objects and static C libraries from Mono/C#. For
example in Perl it's called XS, a language/API that helps glue C code
to Perl, there surely must be something for C#., I think you should be
looking into that, rather than a STDIN/STDOUT interface with
scanimage. Just did a quick google search came up with this:

http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries

Cheers,
Alejandro Imass

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