Hi!
While I was writing the suggestion for Xsane below, I realised that it could
also be used in all frontends (scanimage? xscanimage...), and to reach many
frontend authors, I am posting it here too.
I have a scanner, which has a built in transparency unit. In has also a dia
frame holder which can hold up to 6 diaframes. The bundles software has the
possibility to select a number of areas on the screen, and then scan them all
at one shot.
This is very convinient, when you want to scan many dias.
So my suggestion is that this is added to the planned fuatures list, the
possibility to select a number of areas and then scan them all at once. It
should also be possible to save the areas configuration, since In many cased
the areas are always the same, since the use the use of a frameholder.
Another nice feature would be if there was an "automatic area selector" for
transparency units. It should be possible to do this, since a prewiev gives a
black picture with some rectangular fields. Since you can assume that the
pictures are rectangular, you can make a good estimation on where the actual
pictures are. (One reason for why I would like this is that some dias are
portrait and some are landscape, you have to select areas which covers both and
then edit each singe image manually).
I just come to think about a fact. The area for 35mm dias are always the same,
right, so the automation is even siplier, just find areas with transparency and
fit a 35mm rectangle to them...
This could also be done with a reclective unit, since the areas with no
pictures will have a uniform color. In this case it would also be beneficial if
an automatic rotation of the pictures are made, since in this case you dont
have a frameholder that placs the pictures in a right angle.
Same goes here, if you can select that the pictures are of a certain standard
format, it should be easy to fit a rectangular to the non-unicolor areas, in
the best fit angle and then adjust the angle and save the scanned pictures to
the harddisk, everything automatically.
1. Set up the settings
for (all pictures)
{
place the pictures in the scanner, as good as you can
klick on scan
}
find all pictures in the directory of your harddisk
(named with a choosen preix and a number serie Mypic001.jpg, Mypic002.jpg...).
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