infrared is not supported in the sane protocol. It is possible that there is some support in the backend, which could be enabled by rebuilding sane-backends from source. However, there is little or no support in any of the front-end tools like scanimage to deal with the extra data.
allan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mylan Connolly <mr.mylanman at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am attempting to automate some things in my slide scanning, and > decided to look into SANE. > > Essentially I am using the following command with success (wrapped > within a script): > > scanimage --load --format=tiff --resolution=4000 > --preview-resolution=90 --ae-wb=yes -pd coolscan3:scsi:/dev/sg2 > > /home/mylan/Pictures/scan.tif > > (the filename is just a placeholder) > > I tried getting --infrared=yes to work, however no matter what I tried > (including setting up --batch-count=2 and other things like that), it > would not work. It kept giving me the error: > > scanimage: attempted to set inactive option infrared > > I'd appreciate any insight into this. Thank you very much! > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/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"
