Does the backend for your scanner have a wait for button option ? Thats what I use, just wish my scanner had a jack on the back that let me plug in a foot switch. I'm marking off the days till the resellers warranty runs out so I can add one myself.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Yoann Seeleuthner <yogos2 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to suggest a patch to add a new option to scanimage. > The idea is to allow user to sleep scanner for a time between two scans in > batch mode. > > I did this patch because I wanted to scan a book manually, and batch mode > was too fast (not enough time to turn page), whereas a script looping on > normal mode was too slow (at least 6 seconds between two scans with my > scanner). > So this patch add an option (--batch-delay=INT) that sleep scanimage for INT > seconds. > > This patch have been generated on sane-backends-1.0.22 with "diff -cr > sane-backends-1.0.22-old/ sane-backends-1.0.22/ > patch.diff" > > I hope you will accept it. > > Best regards. > > Yoann > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >
