[sane-devel] Configs?

[jerry]

Hello,

     I run a small business with three offices.  I am writing an 
application for people in my remote offices ( who are emphatically NOT
computer literate ) to send me scans.  I have a Linux server in the 
home office, and an Ubuntu laptop in each remote office.

    Keeping it really simple, I wrote a Perl/TK application with a 
"send" button, and when they load a document in the ADF, press the send 
button, it magically comes to me.

    I have a Brother multifunction machine at each location.

    It proved relatively easy to get my local MFC working with the SANE 
API.  But what about other makes and models of scanner? I'd like to make 
a reasonable effort to "future-proof" the thing.

   The SANE API does a good job of telling me what options exist, and 
what values they can take.  But it doesn't tell me what they *mean*.

   Do people make up a table of translations for each scanner?  Or do 
they try to do string matching - "Resolution" is kind of like 
"resolution" which is probably the same as "Scan Resolution" or "scan 
resolution" etc. ???

                     - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry at tr2.com )