Hi, as soon as I get a Avision based Minolta Elite 5400 which also has a infrared channel I plan to add such support to the avision backend.
The data processing will (e.g. dust removal) will be most probably added to the image library exact-image: http://www.exactcode.de/oss/exact-image/ I'll not look out for any patents on the way because aside we do not have legal software patents here in Germany I doubt a patent in filling areas where you have IR spikes with the surrounding area (and simillar techniques) will have much effect. On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:42, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > First of all, vuescan has nothing to do with Sane, so I'm not > commenting on your remarks about vuescan. > > I am not planning infrared support for the Sane backend. This is > something that should be handled outside of the backend, so that it's > useful for all scanners that support an infrared channel. Digital ICE > is technology from Kodak (http://www.asf.com), so you will not see > that in Sane. I have not looked into infrared technology at all, but > I assume that there are a number of patents that need to be worked > around, so it's not a simple project to add this to an OSS project. > > I don't understand your comment about RAW format. This is something > that you would find in a digital camera, and not a scanner: You are > getting raw image data from Sane. The backend is not interpreting/ > manipulating/changing anything. -- Ren? Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany) http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rebe.name +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45
