I'd like to write a Python-based commandline tool that will scan pages with SANE, applying CCITT Group 4 compression during scanning, and produce a single PDF file. I would release it under GPL. Right now, I'm relying on a workable but inflexible shell script that pipes stuff between scanimage, tiffcp, tiff2ps, and ps2pdf.
What's the best way currently to do CCITT4 compression (e.g., of intermediate TIFF-format images) from Python? PIL doesn't seem to support CCITT4 compression, and the read-only patch [1] that's available won't help in my case. I'd like to incorporate as much as possible into the Python code and imported packages, rather than relying on pipes to a bunch of external programs. Same question regarding SANE -- I can't seem to find the supposed PIL support for SANE in the release on my system. Anyone know about that, or alternatives? --- Ed Suominen Registered Patent Agent Open-Source Software Author (yes, both...) Web Site: http://www.eepatents.com [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2003-July/002354.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
