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This functionality is not supported by the EPSON backend.=20 On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +0100, Michael Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I know this has already come up several times, but nevertheless... >=20 > I find that I quite often use shell scripts like the following: >=20 > i=3D0 > while read; do > i=3D$(($i + 1)); > scanimage --format tiff --resolution 300 \ > --halftoning "Text Enhanced Technology" \ > -x 200mm -y 275mm > out$i.tiff; > done >=20 > Afterwards I combine all the images into one multi-page TIFF. This > approach is very handy to capture magazine articles for archival. >=20 > Now, since my EPSON 1640 scanner has a button, it would be nice if I > could "read" it in the script above instead of having to hit Return on > the keyboard (which is sometimes difficult while trying to make sure > that the source on the scanner doesn't move). >=20 > I know that it would probably be conceptually difficult to integrate > this functionality into the SANE API; I'm rather thinking of separate > utility that behaves just like read. >=20 > sensed <http://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/software/sane/> is > something that comes very close, but unfortunately, it's for Fujitsu > scanners only. >=20 > I guess that most of the necessary code is already available in SANE, > so that it shouldn't be too difficult to implement, right? Maybe > someone has already done it? Or working on it? >=20 > Hints and comments welcome! >=20 > --=20 > Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <[email protected]= e> > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel --=20 Karl Heinz Kremer [email protected] PGP Key at http://www.freecolormanagement.com/download/khk.asc EPSON Sane Backend: http://www.freecolormanagement.com --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBO93yIx4KmkKPBVxtAQGHPQP+LUA8keiQK3ufWZkdLEZV1Cj+DqMr12NH vxyze37IbNHLpHvngxAHSTU6TKt/yNv06xUC1jRhyAUwiTZx3/9Ih+l6QZ9puwMJ sOjlIMAYPmd/X3sGVA7sdCVTVBUCdUfcqMLrfXh+g8/b6rFj3dVChsZ/DzJD4ZSy 2YIBwzCbWYw= =x7u+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--
