[sane-devel] Paper size selection or detection using adf moving paper past fixed scan sensor

[m. allan noah]

In my backends, I have a page-width and page-height, which are used to
clamp the maximum x/y values. In the event that the paper runs out
before the user given size, I still pad the image with an appropriate
background color (which may not be white).

allan

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Paul Newall <p.newalls at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> When flatbed scanning the frontend supplies top left and bottom right
> positions to the backend to define the scan area.
> And the frontend calls sane_read until all the data for that area is
> supplied. If the paper is smaller than the scan area, that is not a problem
> because the scanner can scan past the edge of the paper.
>
> But I have an adf where the paper is passed over a fixed scan head.
> If the scan area is longer than the paper, the scan head can never provide
> enough data.
> Since we have different paper sizes (letter, legal, A4) this is a likely
> problem.
> I have a work around for xsane where you can specify a scan dimension.
> But using simple scan it seems to not be possible to specify scan dimensions
> other than the maximum.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? ie a way to set the size of
> the page after scanning rather than before?
> I thought of these possibilities:
> 1. I guess it's possible to have the backend scan the whole page and store
> the data before replying to the frontend's get_scan_data request. This could
> allow the backend to change the requested scan dimensions.
> 2. The backend could scan the paper, and then if it was not long enough,
> could add white space until the required scan dimensions were met.
>
> But are there any more elegant solutions to this problem? For example is it
> possible for sane_read to return with something like END_PAGE_NOW_STATUS ?
> Then the front end makes the best use that it can of the data returned so
> far?
>
> Paul Newall
>
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