[sane-devel] problems with scanimage to pdf

[ken]

On 02/04/2015 09:21 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> On 02/04/2015 04:17 AM, Carsten Jensen wrote:
>>> On 02/03/2015 10:58 PM, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>> Most scanners produce big-endian data, which scanimage writes out to
>>>> disk when it creates the tiff. Any host-side tools that you use on the
>>>> tiffs will probably convert them to little-endian, since that is the
>>>> format of your CPU. If you attempt to rotate all of them (some of them
>>>> by 360 degrees), such that they all become little endian, and all get
>>>> the strip 204 error fixed, does the pdf work better?
>>>>
>>>> allan
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 02/03/2015 03:21 PM, Carsten Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>> If the above doesn't work you could -as a test- make all the tiffs into
>>> pdf before manipulating them.
>>>
>>> Basically you'll need to find where the error occurs.
>>>
>>> I hardly doubt this is a bug from sane.
>>> but upgrading your imagemagick might do some good.
>>>
>>> Carsten
>>>
>>
>> Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I've been trying and testing all
>> kinds of different things for a bit over two full days, much longer than
>> something like this should take.  Last night I tried hp-scan, the
>> utility that came from HP with their RPM package.  It produced a really
>> nice pdf on the first attempt... except, as mentioned a few days ago,
>> the backside of every physical page (sheet of paper) was upside-down.
>> This morning I figured out how to rectify that with pdftk.  So now I'm
>> getting the pdf document I was after in the first place.  I have to say
>> that the end-product is great-- so clean and clear (MUCH better than I
>> was getting with SANE) at 300dpi that I'm going to try 200dpi.  Then I
>> can script it, knowing that all the commands actually work as advertised.
>>
>> I've been a FOSS junkie since '92 and would have preferred staying with
>> it (as much as is possible under the circumstances).  But at some point
>> I have to get back to the rest of my life.  At least pdftk is open
>> source.  And I'll probably use SANE in future for some less demanding
>> projects.
>
> I may be wrong but I always thought hp-scan is also open source and is
> simply using SANE to do all the real work, as written here
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/tech_docs/man_pages/scan.html
> So you don't have to wait for less demanding projects to use it :)
>
> The real question is why your results are so different with different
> front ends on the same SANE installation?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>

Yeah, that's a good question.  Wish I had the time to dig into that.

AND... right after writing the above email, I got one from HP, a notice 
that there's an upgrade to their RPM package for this printer.  So going 
to do that today (hopefully).