Hi list, I wonder if I can have my portable sheet fed scanner permanently listening for a page to be fed, then auto start scanning it when it senses the presence of a page. (My scanner is a Xerox Travel Scanner 100, usb 0x04a7:0x04ac , Genesys GL841 chipset).
I've been looking into scanimage --page-loaded , but that doesn't seem to be implemented for the genesys backend. I could keep on spawning new scanimage processes every time the previous one successfully exits after scanning or dies with exit status 9 of "scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O" after not getting any sheet fed. I just worry that this might kill my lamp/scanner within weeks or months. Can I safely ignore that risk? while true; do echo "Spawning a scanimage process." scanimage --format=tiff > $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).tif done This does the trick, but it feels ucky... Any hints or help appreciated! Mark Van den Borre happy sane user -- Mark Van den Borre Noormannenstraat 113 3000 Leuven, Belgi? +32 486 961726
