Re: [sane-devel] correcting upside-down pages in duplex mode using ADF

2015-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 30 January 2015 at 18:43, m. allan noah wrote: > Not everyone uses xsane- what about scanimage or gscan2pdf. They would > also have to implement this flipping code. Hence, this is a problem > with the hplip sane backend, for which the source should be available. > That is the place the fix shou

Re: [sane-devel] correcting upside-down pages in duplex mode using ADF

2015-01-30 Thread m. allan noah
"they all do that" is specific to these HP all-in-ones. Other scanners fix this in hardware or in the driver software. Does their TWAIN driver do this on windows? Not everyone uses xsane- what about scanimage or gscan2pdf. They would also have to implement this flipping code. Hence, this is a prob

Re: [sane-devel] correcting upside-down pages in duplex mode using ADF

2015-01-30 Thread ken
Thanks, Allan. I talked with HP tech support about this too and the answer I got was, "they all do that" and, if you want that kind of scanning (where all the pages come out right-side-up), you have to get a dedicated scanner which costs twice as much (and doesn't have printing and faxing capa

Re: [sane-devel] correcting upside-down pages in duplex mode using ADF

2015-01-30 Thread m. allan noah
I hate to sound like a broken record :) I don't think there is a setting to fix this in xsane, because this is a bug in the backend. IMHO, the individual backend is responsible for making the image make sense. In the short term, you should be able to use 'convert -rotate 180' to rotate those image

[sane-devel] correcting upside-down pages in duplex mode using ADF

2015-01-30 Thread ken
When scanning several pages using the ADF in duplex mode, the backside of each page is rendered upside-down. Is there some setting in xsane to flip the backside of each page vertically so that it's right-side-up? Failing that, is there a utility to accomplish the same thing programmatically a