On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, m. allan noah wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Ren? Rebe wrote: > > > Well that stinks as you lose a lot of detail with the lossy jpeg > > decompression. > > even worse, if you are running the thing over the net backend, you convert > to huge bitmap just before you transfer it over the network! > > > > > Maybe let's add the JPEG frame type rather soon (even in SANE 1) and let's > > add an IR (infra red) frame specification on the way as good film scanner > > deliver for dust and the-like removal.
Perhaps with carefully crafted code, decompression compression could be made an identity operation. If not, perhaps it could be made idempotent. > SANE2 could require that the frontend support jpeg, and that could become > the default for the 'format' option. Not having a default would better than making it a lossy compression method. If one is going to do compression, perhaps it would be good to have a non-loosy method as one of the options. -- Mike [email protected] "it stands to reason that they weren't always called the ancients." -- Daniel Jackson
