[sane-devel] Configs?

[Stef]

On 28/10/2013 16:52, jerry wrote:
> 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 )
>
>
     Hello,

     there are "well known options" that are consistent in meaning 
across all backends. They are defined in include/sane/saneopts.h . You 
can rely on it to be stable. Others are special or specific options and 
may only belong to only one backend.

Regards,
     Stef