Hi, On Thursday 18 April 2013 22:32:51 Alexander Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > Am 16.04.2013 08:24, schrieb Gerhard J?ger: [...] > > Regarding writing a backend, this one could be a starting point > > http://www.sane-project.org/backend-writing.txt > That one helped me out: I was able to add a new option, "dark-scan" to > the plustek backend, that causes the driver to switch of the lampes the > moment the scan begins. It works like a charm - digitizing old S/W > negatives works, and so does scanning pictures projected by "scanner > cameras". As the scanner is recording red, green and blue channels one > by one, color's not possible of course, except with using filters and > scanning the image thrice, witch might produce some interesting results > when using IR, I've yet to check that. > > If there's interest in the change, I could try to provide a patch, > although I'm not very familiar of using git...
give it a try and post the patch for review. I'm also not very familiar with git, but it's in fact not that hard to learn... - Gerhard
