Have you looked at JSane-net on sourcefoge ? (I'm the maintainer, though not very well at the moment :) ) It sounds like what you're planning is already part way there in the project. It was originally written to connect to sane via it's network protocol, but I have extracted the interface, so that a JNI version could be written. I know that it has been used by a few people. Have alook and tell me what you think. (sorry the main website is down at the moment.) do asearch on sourceforge for jsane-net
Andi On Sunday 29 Jan 2006 22:23, Vacuum Joe wrote: > > So once the GPLed code has been found ok I think it > > can get part of > > sane-frontends. > > Excellent! > > > Concerning japi I think we should pack it into a > > .tar.gz file, put in > > on the ftp server and link to it somewhere in case > > somebody is still > > interested. Then it can be removed from > > sane-backends CVS. > > That sounds like the right thing. I doubt there could > be any active projects still using it, but if there > are, they could get it. > > > I'll just put it on the fronetnds page similar to > > the other frontends > > with a link to you and an explanation that the code > > is part of > > sane-frontends. > > Excellent! Thank you! > > Now that I know that SANE is open to this, I need to > do a little bit of refactoring, etc, to get it ready > to go as an API. Basically, the way it will work is > there will be a Scanner class which will use > providers. Sane will be the provider for Linux > systems. With the provider model, anyone who uses the > API won't have to worry about whether it is Sane (on > Linux) or TWAIN or whatever. They will just use the > generic Scanner interface. This is the same way most > things work in Java. For example you write a database > application without making reference to any specific > database, so the same app will work on Oracle, > Postgres, etc. This will allow people to start > writing more Scanner applications for Java. Right now > there are not so many because it's so > platform-specific, and Java coders don't like > platform-specific stuff. > > So I'll get that separated out and on our website > within a few days, and then you can review it and > hopefully put it on as an official part of SANE, > although maybe not in the sane-frontends.tar.gz per > se. I'll probably also put in a very simple demo > application which makes a scan and saves a JPEG. > > All the code that we submit will be under the GPL. > > >From a biz point of view, that's our only choice. > > Now if only there were some better open source OCR > options. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20060131/0b399f91/attachment.pgp
