I'm using scanimage in batch mode to scan books (at 300dpi, 8 bit grey) on a Canon N670U (plustek backend, sane-backends 1.0.15). Once the scan starts it's reasonably fast; however, the scan head spends quite a bit of time (maybe twenty seconds) futzing about before scanning.
I'm using the option to cache calibration and it doesn't seem to make much difference. Is the calibration cached to a file that I need to have write permission for, or just kept in RAM between scans for a particular process, or something else? Also, I understand only the coarse calibration data is cached, and fine calibration is redone for each page; is this correct? How disastrous is it to skip fine calibration? __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest