[sane-devel] Question about infrared on my LS-4000

2012-08-17 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Mylan Connolly wrote: > I suppose I could be confused, then. I saw mention here: > > http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-coolscan3.5.html > > The backend must not be directly associated with SANE, then I take it? > > What I took from that documentation was; > >

[sane-devel] Question about infrared on my LS-4000

2012-08-17 Thread Mylan Connolly
I suppose I could be confused, then. I saw mention here: http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-coolscan3.5.html The backend must not be directly associated with SANE, then I take it? What I took from that documentation was; Set --batch-count=2 (and probably --batch, as well I would imagine), an

[sane-devel] Question about infrared on my LS-4000

2012-08-17 Thread m. allan noah
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,

[sane-devel] Question about infrared on my LS-4000

2012-08-17 Thread Mylan Connolly
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:sc