You have not said what scanner you are using? It might be possible if it has buttons to modify the backend to wait for button presses between scans.
allan 2009/4/29 J?r?me Avond <j.avond at axolys.fr>: > Hi everyone, > > (French so don't mind langage's errors...) > > Our scanner is in a different room with all the stuff for printers, we > usually need multipage scanning and there are three problems : > > ? 1. For the start, even we try to beat Carl Lewis on 50 meters, even > ? ? ?we ask someone to help use (with shouting : "OK GO ON, start this > ? ? ?$%## scan!", no way with customer on site), even we go with our > ? ? ?pages first then go back to computer then go back to scan... > ? 2. During the scan of 10 or 20 pages, you'd better be a shaolin monk > ? ? ?and fell like the squirrel to be as sharp as him. > ? 3. The end is ok but you always find pages with bad scan and you have > ? ? ?to redo it sometimes twice because your squirrel feeling is gone... > > The thing is that with _a timing for start_ AND _a timing between scans_ > there will be no problems... > > Thus we could do easily a scanimage script (that's what we actually had > done, before the throwing of the scanner througt the window...) but I > had read somewhere that OpenSource and FreeSoftware needs to point out > the willing of there users... :) JOKE! > > To be honest, we just need to see where we could add this feature among > the amount of code, in fact where is the "do scan" function... > > Thanks for reading > > Regards, > > -- > > Cordialement, > > J?r?me Avond > > j.avond at axolys.com > --- > ..../\..............|.|.......... > .../..\...__.._____.|.|_..._.___. > .././\.\..\.\/./._.\|.|.|.|./.__| > ./.____.\..>..<.(_).|.|.|_|.\__.\ > /_/....\_\/_/\_\___/|_|\__,.|___/ > ........................__/.|.... > .......................|___/..... > Axolys SS2L > 27 rue D?sir? Claude > 42100 Saint ?tienne > +33 (0)4 77 32 10 57 > --- > http://www.axolys.com > info at axolys.com > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
