[sane-devel] Plustek OpticFilm 7400 minor issues

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM Tricia via sane-devel <
sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> Ah, cool! Will do. And in the mean time, I'll see if I can make any
> headway figuring these out on my own. (I'm not wildly unfamiliar with
> C++ or low-level programming.)
>
> Would you prefer a single issue encompassing the three issues below, or
> three separate issues?
>

Honestly, I think one issue encompassing all the items would be fine.


>
> (p.s., I'm not sure of the preferred etiquette for this list; should I
> direct replies "To" you and CC the list, or only To the list?)
>

It is good practise to "reply all" since others might be interested in the
conversation in the mail list archive.
At least, that's what I do.


>
> - Tricia
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 11:42:06AM -0700, Ralph Little wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thank you for your report!
> >
> > We don't have an active maintainer at the moment for the genesys backend
> so
> > it might take a while to get to this, since I'm pretty swamped with other
> > stuff at the moment.
> >
> > The best thing I can suggest is to create an issue here so that we do not
> > forget: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends
> >
> > Hopefully, one of us will be able to help you at some point.
> > Cheers,
> > Ralph
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM Tricia via sane-devel <
> > sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have scanning basically working with my PlusTek OpticFilm 7400 (which
> > > sane identified as a v1).
> > >
> > > There are a few minor things I'd love to see fixed. I'm using 1.3.1,
> > > which is the latest package version available for Debian Trixie.
> > >
> > > Roughly in order of importance:
> > >
> > > * With `--mode Gray`, any format at any DPI produces a corrupt file.
> > >
> > > * With `--mode Color`, JPEG images are corrupt, although other image
> > >   formats are fine.
> > >
> > > * SANE does not seem to recognize the two buttons on the front of the
> > >   device (labeled "QuickScan" and "IntelliScan").
> > >
> > > I'm happy to provide whatever telemetry I can, or examples of the
> > > corrupt images in question (but, understandably, they're somewhat large
> > > files that probably shouldn't be emailed to the list as a whole.)
> > >
> > > I am, nevertheless, thrilled that it's working enough to get data out
> > > of, and of course needing to convert from color to greyscale for
> > > scanning my B&W film is trivial.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > - Tricia
> > >
> > >
>
>
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