I just now got a chance to try this with my iX500- and yes, if you have multiple pages in the scanner and ask for only one, the machine will keep scanning. I will look for a fix.
allan On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:29 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > You need to add the -b option to scanimage to get more than one image. > this will produce images in your current directory instead of using > stdout. > > Really, the scanner should only pull in the first sheet in this case. > It is possible there is some additional command we could send to the > scanner to make it behave. > > allan > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:38 PM, dfriberg23 <dfriberg23 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I got my iX500 to work with the latest git snapshot of sane-backend. >> However, when I load 3 papers into the scanner, and run this: >> >> SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=15 scanimage -d fujitsu --format=tiff --resolution=300 > >> foo.tif 2> log.txt >> >> The first 2 pages get sucked through, and about a fourth of the third page, >> but only the first page is written to foo.tif. Is there a way to control >> the number of pages it brings through, or do we not know how to do that yet? >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://sane.10972.n7.nabble.com/iX500-multiple-pages-tp17570.html >> Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> -- >> 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" -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
