[sane-devel] Announcing new GUI frontend Sanescan

2022-07-17 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Sanescan is yet another GUI scanning and OCR frontend that uses SANE as its backend. The reason for its existence is that none of the current open-source scanning and OCR applications actually do OCR well enough that text selection works reliably when viewing the produced PDF document. Many of

[sane-devel] Character encoding used for sane_strstatus() strings

2022-07-17 Thread John Scott
Hi, The SANE spec says that all strings are encoded in ISO-8859-1 ("Latin- 1"). However, from inspecting the code for sane_strstatus(), it appears that it just returns ordinary string literals, which use whatever encoding the compiler prescribes for narrow string literals and need not be the