[sane-devel] Fine control of scanner?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Cirrus,

# Wading through my mailing list backlog ...

Cirrus writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using SANE for an odd little project to run a typical Epson
> consumer-grade flatbed scanner.  All works well.  (Thanks!)
>
> It would be nice to have tighter control over the scanner; integration
> time, carriage speed, etc.
> Is that level of control hidden behind the scanner's interface or is it
> something SANE might have access to?  I'm guessing that there's no easy
> access, but thought it better to ask.

Depends on the model.
The ESC/I and ESC/I-2 protocols are fairly well understood but not all
of the protocol is necessarily used and/or exposed by the backends that
use that protocol.

Hope this helps,
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