[sane-devel] [AVISION 6080E] Who is responsible for libsane.fdi?

2009-05-22 Thread Rene Rebe
. On 22.05.2009, at 16:15, m. allan noah wrote: yes- git is taking me some time to get used to, but it is growing on me :) allan On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Yeah, noticed. I'll have to try the new git repository. Though one could copy the ID

[sane-devel] [AVISION 6080E] Who is responsible for libsane.fdi?

2009-05-22 Thread Rene Rebe
Yeah, noticed. I'll have to try the new git repository. Though one could copy the ID to the .desc manually, but I'll really try to auto-update it timely. On 22.05.2009, at 16:05, m. allan noah wrote: We'll have to ask Rene (cc'd) to update the .desc- the script is external to sane... allan

[sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue

2009-04-28 Thread Rene Rebe
I do not write to you directly. You probably subscribed to the SANE mailing list. Unsusribe there, thanks, On 28.04.2009, at 10:02, John Cotter wrote: Hello, Can you please take me off your distribution list manually? I get about 30 of these per day. The unsubscribe option below does not

[sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue

2009-04-27 Thread Rene Rebe
On 27.04.2009, at 12:50, PaulFransen wrote: On Sunday 12/04/2009 12:13 ono at safe-mail.net wrote: --- I can try something like SnoopyPro (http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/), much later. I just left town for (probably) two

[sane-devel] Xerox Documate 510 Backend

2009-04-08 Thread Rene Rebe
No it isn't. On 08.04.2009, at 04:14, m. allan noah wrote: judging by the shell, I'd say thats really an Avision machine, very similar to fujitsu 4010CU. The avision backend is in need of a maintainer... allan On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Bryan Ward bward1 at gmail.com wrote: I have a

[sane-devel] Xerox Documate 510 Backend

2009-04-08 Thread Rene Rebe
On 08.04.2009, at 10:22, Julien BLACHE wrote: Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, No it isn't. Oh, really? We are eagerly waiting for avision bugfixes to start flowing into CVS. There's a release coming, so now would be a good time to start. I do not know of any bug that needs

[sane-devel] Xerox Documate 510 Backend

2009-04-08 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 08.04.2009, at 10:53, Julien BLACHE wrote: Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, I do not know of any bug that needs fixing. Using a proper non-Debian You must be kidding. What about the various versions of the HP 7400 that stopped working after 1.0.18, for a start? I've got

[sane-devel] Xerox Documate 510 Backend

2009-04-08 Thread Rene Rebe
On 08.04.2009, at 11:31, Julien BLACHE wrote: Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, There are 2 7400 flavors and I think booth do work. The other mail on the list today apparently also boils down to the linux usb subsystem got confused, so? Yeah for that one, but I've got other

[sane-devel] Xerox Documate 510 Backend

2009-04-08 Thread Rene Rebe
m. allan noah wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: No it isn't. On 08.04.2009, at 04:14, m. allan noah wrote: judging by the shell, I'd say thats really an Avision machine, very similar to fujitsu 4010CU. The avision backend is in need of a maintainer

[sane-devel] AV122 vertical strips...can you assist?

2008-11-25 Thread Rene Rebe
If there are just tiny, very light lines then there is probably dust on the CCD glass, you can wipe it clean with air or some clean soft towel. Jacques Verhagen wrote: I have the same problem, It is not a Sane or Linux problem. With XP as os I get the same results I think it is a AV220

[sane-devel] AV122 vertical strips...can you assist?

2008-11-25 Thread Rene Rebe
at 10:40 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Yeah - and you're still not using CVS ... AFAICS CVS is fine. On 25.11.2008, at 12:33, Zudio Solutions wrote: Hi Rene, this is how images look like: http://picasaweb.google.com/zudiosol/Temp02#5272555966400660866 on XP using TWAIN it's

[sane-devel] AV122 vertical strips...can you assist?

2008-11-25 Thread Rene Rebe
Yes, I should update that page, latest code is in SANE CVS. On 25.11.2008, at 14:03, Wilhelm Meier wrote: Hi Rene, I get a 404 for http://svn.exactcode.de/sane-avision/trunk/backend -- Am Dienstag 25 November 2008 schrieb Rene Rebe: IIRC CVS outputs 1.1.0 or so already. If you have

[sane-devel] Patch to make XSane work with SANE 1.1

2008-10-14 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Binary incompatible and breaking would be silently data corruption or no longer starting due to missing symbols etc. pseudocode: ret = sane_start() if(ret){ die(bad status); } that works in sane 1.0, and fails in sane 1.1, both with the original binary, and with a new binary

[sane-devel] [AVISION] Problem with a AVISION FB6080E scanner

2008-09-17 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, I have not forgotten your ACK :-) It's just the incredibly high workload these days (e.g. see Cuneiform / ExactImage, not to forget the T2 SDE :-) I'll try to get some free Sunday soon to look at the Debian services and our automated scripts. Yours, Ren? On 29.08.2008 at 17:17 m.

[sane-devel] Creating searchable PDF with ExactImage 0.6

2008-09-16 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi all, ExactImage 0.6(.0) now comes with an revamped PDF writer and hocr2pdf front-end, together with a patch to cuneiform to annotate each recognized glyph with a hOCR-like bounding box, it allows the creation of pretty exactly positioned, searchable PDF files: ExactImage:

[sane-devel] Crazy idea :)

2008-06-30 Thread Rene Rebe
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-29 20:22:23 +0200, litlle girl little.linux.girl at gmail.com wrote: flatbed scanners are scanning moving head forward, there in no reason to loose time on moving head backward useles, next page can be scanned at head backward move, and then fliped

[sane-devel] CIS scanners: to calibrate or not to calibrate :) this is the question (my scanner is mad and lazy :)

2008-06-29 Thread Rene Rebe
litlle girl wrote: AFE settings looks more stable: grep \[gt68xx\] afe ./* ./color-1.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f 0x04 ./color-2.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f 0x04 ./color-3.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f 0x04 ./gray-1.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10

[sane-devel] CIS scanners: to calibrate or not to calibrate :) this is the question (my scanner is mad and lazy :)

2008-06-29 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Pierre Willenbrock wrote: Rene Rebe schrieb: litlle girl wrote: AFE settings looks more stable: grep \[gt68xx\] afe ./* ./color-1.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f 0x04 ./color-2.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f 0x04 ./color-3.log:[gt68xx] afe 0x0f 0x04 0x10 0x05 0x0f

[sane-devel] CIS scanners: to calibrate or not to calibrate :) this is the question (my scanner is mad and lazy :)

2008-06-28 Thread Rene Rebe
litlle girl wrote: Hi guyz, i recognize that win drivers dont calibrate my CIS scanner before scan. gt68xx backend is loosing about 20sec every time on calibrating! Is there any way to turn off gt68xx backend calibrating? Most stuff i scan at lineart and i don't need calibrating neither

[sane-devel] CIS scanners: to calibrate or not to calibrate :) this is the question (my scanner is mad and lazy :)

2008-06-28 Thread Rene Rebe
litlle girl wrote: The windows driver probably calibrates once, when the scanner is first used, and stores the reference data somewhere (file, registry, etc.). The SANE driver should try to do the same (not registry of course, but some /var/... whatever file-system location. Yours, --

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-04-10 Thread Rene Rebe
On 10.04.2008, at 21:33, stef wrote: Le Wednesday 09 April 2008 21:38:26, vous avez ?crit : You are still just arguing around the dancing cow here. With a potentially new sane_end whatever function you still would have to keep track where the head is. A frontend may still read less

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-04-09 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 09.04.2008, at 21:27, stef wrote: Le Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:48:22 Ren? Rebe, vous avez ?crit : As the backend controls the device and reads the image data somehow, it should have knowledge about the actual head position and should be able to perform the required actions even

[sane-devel] hp7400c won't work with latest sane ?

2008-04-07 Thread Rene Rebe
HI, in the meantime we found the bug, some assignments got lost during some merge window. I'll commit the a fix to CVS today. On 07.04.2008, at 02:42, Gabriele Gorla wrote: I don't have the debug log (I can post it later if necessary), but I the backend stopped working for me too on a

[sane-devel] hp7400c won't work with latest sane ?

2008-04-04 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 04.04.2008, at 01:05, Tymoteusz wrote: m. allan noah pisze: On 4/3/08, Tymoteusz tymoteusz.drozd at gmail.com wrote: Yeah, just that X segfaulted, does not tell much. However, you could test with scanimage in a xterm (or variant) or even the console text terminal to check your

[sane-devel] hp7400c won't work with latest sane ?

2008-04-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Yes, the debug log would be welcome. Sidenot: a backend, mine specifically, should not be able to interfere with Xorg. If Xorg crashes than more likely due to an bug allocating an overly large pixmap from XSane or Kooka or something like that. Though of corse Xorg (the X server or an driver)

[sane-devel] hp7400c won't work with latest sane ?

2008-04-03 Thread Rene Rebe
HI, On 03.04.2008, at 17:28, blizzi wrote: Hi i've got some more info about crash of kooka xsane. its looks like you were right. this is part of my Xorg.0.log SetClientVersion: 0 9 SetClientVersion: 0 9 (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) APM registered successfully

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-29 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 21:56, stef wrote: Hello, it seems that the real question is what do we want for SANE future ? 1 - the current situation is perfectly fine, don't need to change a thing. 2 - only a couple of new image formats are needed, simply evolve a few

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 09:16, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:52:51 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Have you counted thru how many developers are willing to rewrite their code (backends, frontends, etc.) for this arbitrarily defined SANE 2 thing ? My votes

[sane-devel] [05.20] Re: SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 11:52, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:34:22 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: I believe that Stef has made very clear its intentions to go toward SANE 2. TWAIn for linux would be a complete rewrite of everything, and compatible changes

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi Allan, On 28.03.2008, at 14:46, m. allan noah wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM, stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hello, before any work can start on SANE 2, the current proposal has to be completed. and before we can complete it, we must acknowlege that it has not

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 08:52 +0100 schrieb Rene Rebe: Have you counted thru how many developers are willing to rewrite their code (backends, frontends, etc.) for this arbitrarily defined SANE 2 thing ? My votes still are: preferably compatibly change SANE 1 or adopt TWAIN for Linux

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 18:40, Julien BLACHE wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, - scanner's button handling this is overly complicated, and should be re-examined. For that and other reasons, I think it'd really be better to have the frontends be entirely

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks for infra-red frames, and maybe a ability to pass duplex data without buffering the rear side, which becomes even more

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 19:09, Julien BLACHE wrote: ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do you mean having some cups for scanner ? Something much more simple than CUPS, but yeah, basically. Actually, i wish not, because users don't want another service. HAL can launch

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 19:13, Julien BLACHE wrote: Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, Sounds a bit Data Source Manager like-ish (in TWAIN terms), definetly and idea for desktops. Yes. From what you told about TWAIN the other day, I think I like the architecture. I don't know

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:19, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:34, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:19, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote

[sane-devel] SANE 1.0.18 and the NSLU2 running OpenWRT

2007-07-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, thanks, I'll go over them. Btw. nowadays virtually everyone rather prefers unified diffs (diff -u) - but I can of course also read those :-) On Monday 23 July 2007 16:25, David Solomon wrote: Here are the diffs: rx30 at dsolomon-devbox:~/nslu2/downloads/temp/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend$

[sane-devel] Re: Specialized plastic/laminated id card scanner, USB interface?

2007-03-31 Thread Rene Rebe
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 23:30:37 Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: I need to scan visitors' plastic/laminate identification cards. The scans are to be initiated via web app, signalling a headless SANE linux server to scan via scanadf, network scanning, python PIL/sane, etc.

[sane-devel] Re: Recommendations for reliable ADF sheetfed (Fujitsu, Kodak, others?)

2007-03-31 Thread Rene Rebe
On Thursday 29 March 2007 19:44:45 Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: m. allan noah wrote: the kodak i30 and i40 are rebadged avision av200's, and i think visioneer sells one too. i had a kodak i40 here for awhile, it works ok with sane, but there were some 'pausing' or timeout issues when you first

[sane-devel] Flatbed scanner that can scan to the edge?

2007-02-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:38:58 Felix E. Klee wrote: At Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:52:55 +0100, Jens Gulden wrote: - BUT: it scans right to one edge. Plustek claims to even have patented this invention... You must've misunderstood me: I need a scanner that can scan right to the edge of

[sane-devel] Flatbed scanner that can scan to the edge?

2007-02-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:57:16 Felix E. Klee wrote: At Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:03:00 +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: You must've misunderstood me: I need a scanner that can scan right to the edge of the *glass plate*. In fact, before getting the Epson 3490, I thought that every modern

[sane-devel] Flatbed scanner that can scan to the edge?

2007-02-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:22:34 Felix E. Klee wrote: If I do not find such a scanner, I may have to build a stencil that I can put on my current scanner. Actually, this should not be too hard. I'm annoyed however, that this step is necessary. Why didn't Epson make the

[sane-devel] Frontend for film scanners

2007-01-14 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:20, Erik P. Olsen wrote: John wrote: I have a Minolta dimage III positive film scanner, which can take 4 positive frames at once. I have not been able to find any good software to use with this scanner. Does anyone have a good hint? If you don't

[sane-devel] Anyone working on Xerox Workcenter scanning driver?

2006-11-18 Thread Rene Rebe
On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:19, Farley S. Kalp wrote: Can anyone get the workcentre m950 to work with linux? If you have such a device you can dump the Windows driver i/o and send it to me. I could tell you whether it is Avision based then. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE - Berlin

[sane-devel] ScanJet 5300c

2006-10-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Sunday 22 October 2006 22:02, en wrote: [avision] attach: opening libusb:001:004 [avision] attach: open failed (Invalid argument) [avision] sane_init: Trying to find USB device 3f0 701 ... [avision] attach: [avision] attach: opening libusb:001:004 [avision] attach: open failed

[sane-devel] ScanJet 5300c

2006-10-21 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Saturday 21 October 2006 01:14, Endicott Lovell wrote: Hello all, I recently started using Linux, and have been trying to get my scanner to work for quite some time. I have an HP ScanJet 5300c. I am running sane 1.0.18 and sane-frontends 1.0.14. The sane website says that this

[sane-devel] ScanJet 5300c

2006-10-21 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Saturday 21 October 2006 20:06, en wrote: Well, I don't have hpusb loaded. And trying it as root doesn't provide any different results. Any other ideas? Nope. Maybe you hit a bug in the recent Linux kernels with USB 1 devices behind USB 2 hubs. What is the output of:

[sane-devel] ADF functionality: Choosing out of 3 Products

2006-10-13 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Friday 13 October 2006 02:47, Wolfram Heider wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:05:00 +0200, m. allan noah an...@pfeiffer.edu wrote: fujitsu S500, or fi-5110C (or EOX derivatives) allan The Canon DR 1210C isn't in the list, so it may be unsupported. The HP scanjet is labelled

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V100

2006-10-07 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Friday 06 October 2006 07:43, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Alexandre Averyanov avale...@yahoo.com writes: I have purchased a Subj. This model is new one and not supported by SANE yet but I hope it's similar to Epson Perfection 3490/3590. It is not. When we have such a pretty supported

[sane-devel] Sane continuous paper scanning

2006-10-07 Thread Rene Rebe
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:32, m. allan noah wrote: many scanners have internal limits on the length of a scan. even the high-dollar fujitsus usually have a 35 inch limit. this is not a driver problem, but a scanner firmware problem. you may be able to find some particular scanner that does

[sane-devel] Avision 'bug' with kodak i40

2006-10-04 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Wednesday 04 October 2006 14:06, m. allan noah wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, On Monday 02 October 2006 20:19, m. allan noah wrote: in order to get the kodak i40 (clone of av-220?) working with the avision backend, i had to extend the TUR/INQ timeouts

[sane-devel] hp scanjet 8290

2006-10-02 Thread Rene Rebe
On Monday 18 September 2006 18:26, Bertrik Sikken wrote: Tera Holler wrote: Is hp scanjet 8290 unsupported? I would like to connect it to a HP B2600 running hp-ux 11.11. I have no practical experience with this scanner, but the sane-project.org backend search engine says:

[sane-devel] Low priced (ADF) scanner with at least 4PPM?

2006-07-29 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Monday 24 July 2006 02:20, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: The ADF should be supported out of the box (assuming you use our RPMs, that is). BTW, our backend does NOT support scanning at resolutions larger than 3200dpi. And are as binary only as the alc1100 CUPS driver that includes a GPL

[sane-devel] Low priced (ADF) scanner with at least 4PPM?

2006-07-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, some Avision AV600 or AV610. They are of reasonable high quality and scan even faster. And Avision is a very supporting company when it comes to Windows alternative drivers. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany) http://exactcode.de |

[sane-devel] brightness/contrast/gamma LUT ideas?

2006-07-20 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Tuesday 18 July 2006 19:35, m. allan noah wrote: As far as I know, xsane automatically calculates and downloads a gamma table for brightness / contrast / gamma if the backend advertises it. interesting! do you know of a backend that does this? i would like to see the option

[sane-avision] Re: [sane-devel] re: Minolta Dimage scan dual II

2006-06-09 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, sorry for the delay. On Tuesday 30 May 2006 10:36, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote: Using the version in the package (build 182) I had problems that seemed very similar to your log, but with a (much) older version (build 99) I could a scan without problems. From files that I

[sane-devel] Re: [sane-commit] CVS update of sane-backends (16 files)

2006-06-06 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, any reason why the ChangeLog lists an old date for this commit? 1.2925 (ellert-g 06-Jun-06): 2006-05-26 Mattias Ellert mattias.ell...@tsl.uu.se 1.2925 (ellert-g 06-Jun-06): 1.2925 (ellert-g 06-Jun-06): * po/Makefile.in, po/sane-backends.*.po: updated with

[sane-devel] Epson 4490

2006-05-31 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, as soon as I get a Avision based Minolta Elite 5400 which also has a infrared channel I plan to add such support to the avision backend. The data processing will (e.g. dust removal) will be most probably added to the image library exact-image: http://www.exactcode.de/oss/exact-image/

[sane-devel] usb_clear_halt() in sanei_usb_read_int(), correct?

2006-05-24 Thread Rene Rebe
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:24, Wittawat Yamwong wrote: Hi, Why is usb_clear_halt() called unconditionally when usb_interrupt_read() returns an error? A possible error can be -ETIMEDOUT for example and in this case there is no need to call usb_clear_halt(). I've a problem that interrupt

[sane-devel] re: Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II

2006-05-24 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, From your first log we can see that the scanner is recognised. It sees that there is no film holder, it waits for the lamp to warm up, all perfect, and then it starts the calibration process. Everything seems to be ok, until we get to the portion that I am attaching. There we start having

[sane-devel] Fujitsu backend update 7

2006-05-15 Thread Rene Rebe
On Saturday 13 May 2006 20:53, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: fi-4010CU Most probably Avision. Can you try adding the ID into the avision backend and give it a try? A USB snoop of the window driver would be nice as well. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)

[sane-devel] OCR software

2006-05-15 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Sunday 14 May 2006 04:39, Greg Furmanek wrote: Hi gang :-) I have been lurking on the list for quite some time. There are a lot of good info I got from you guys. I am just wondering if you have any recommendations when it comes to open source OCR libraries. It would be nice

[sane-devel] Backend for Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400.

2006-04-30 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Friday 21 April 2006 09:51, Serge Leblanc wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:04 +0200, Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, can you please use the normal usbsnoop tool and not whatever *pro tool you are using? For the normal tool poeple use since ages I have decoding scripts a-hand. I hope

[sane-devel] Backend for Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400.

2006-04-30 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Friday 21 April 2006 09:51, Serge Leblanc wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:04 +0200, Rene Rebe wrote: Hi, can you please use the normal usbsnoop tool and not whatever *pro tool you are using? For the normal tool poeple use since ages I have decoding scripts a-hand. Yes

[sane-devel] Wrong colour scanning with HP 7400c

2006-04-24 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Sunday 23 April 2006 23:28, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:02, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Aside the stripe the image is completely fine? Does it only happen when you scan the whole page? E.g. is due to some plastic on the side and the other software just allow scanning

[sane-devel] Wrong colour scanning with HP 7400c

2006-04-23 Thread Rene Rebe
On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:05, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I am using FC5 with sane-backends 1.0.17 and each colour scan with my HP 7400c has a yellow column of width 2-3 mm on the leftmost side of the scanned image. I have scanned with an alternative piece of software and here this yellow stripe is

[sane-devel] Wrong colour scanning with HP 7400c

2006-04-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:02, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Aside the stripe the image is completely fine? Does it only happen when you scan the whole page? E.g. is due to some plastic on the side and the other software just allow scanning a smaller region? Or does it happen for scans in the

[sane-devel] Backend for Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400.

2006-04-19 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, can you please use the normal usbsnoop tool and not whatever *pro tool you are using? For the normal tool poeple use since ages I have decoding scripts a-hand. I think it is this one: http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/doc.php.en Yours, On Tuesday 18 April 2006 23:56, Serge

[sane-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] scanadf [ -p | --pipe ] option

2005-07-12 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Also check CVS, there is a change concerning waiting for the scripts to be finished before exiting. This makes your patch fail (one hunk). Ouhm. I have to admit I have again managed to forget the root password for the debian site ... :-(( Unfortunatly the

[sane-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] scanadf [ -p | --pipe ] option

2005-07-11 Thread Rene Rebe
2005-07-11 12:33:58.0 +0200 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ scanimage by Andreas Beck and David Mosberger Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Martone + Copyright (C) 2005 Rene Rebe ([ -p | --pipe] script option) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms

[sane-devel] Re: (fwd) Re: [sane-avision] Re: Incorrect initialization of hp scanjet 7400c.

2005-06-30 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Philip J. Hollenback wrote: Rene, do you have any comments on the problems I'm having with usb in the latest code? Hi, I think I have the same issue with the AV120 and AV210. I keep you posted when I got more detailed out of the tests ... Yours, -- René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157

[sane-devel] A3 Scanner on Linux

2005-04-25 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Jonathan Hipkiss wrote: I'm looking for an A3 scanner, that is still available to buy, that works under Linux. Nothing under 600dpi and preferably more. A USB interface would be best. I've looked around the SANE site but most scanners listed don't mention if they are A3 or not

[sane-devel] OT: Document scanner recomendations - advice sought

2005-04-25 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Richard Reina wrote: I have been using the Fujitsu M3091DC for about 2.5 years. I would like to upgrade to a scanner higher quality faster document scanner, preferrably one that can handle odd sized pages ( smaller than 8.5 by 11 ) and would not require that I darken a document by

[sane-devel] CinePaint and sane

2005-04-10 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi Robin - hi all, Robin Rowe wrote: The GIMP plugin interface is too restrictive. The new CinePaint interface is a shared memory framebuffer. Independent applications will be able to directly access CinePaint images in memory, not have to launch from within CinePaint. We're looking

[sane-devel] film scanner in linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Ivan Fernandez wrote: Hello, and sorry if this is slightly off-topic. I've been thinking about buying a dedicated slide/negative scanner, but none of the models I've seen in the market seem to be supported by SANE. Could anyone give me recommendations about which film scanners work well

[sane-devel] Problems with gamma

2005-03-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Tim Hadden wrote: When I put in put in --custom-gamma I get a error unrecognized option custom gamma. Maybe I am missing something? Well - I wrote --gamma-table - not --custom gamma ... Just use scanimage --help to take a look what options your backend supports (I have never looked into

[sane-devel] FI-5110c support

2005-03-23 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, m. allan noah wrote: sunil- i would love to get a trace of this. can you install benoit's usb sniffer on your windows machine, and get a trace of a small scan, perhaps a business card, in black and white? then put that log up on the web somewhere where i can get it? The device looks

[sane-devel] Problems with gamma

2005-03-22 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Tim Hadden wrote: I am trying to figure out how to use the gamma controls from the scanimage command line utility. I have a hp 4215 MFC any time I try to put in any of the options for --custom-gamma=yes it tells me unreconized option. I can set the gamma in the xsane program I am not

[sane-devel] Status of SANE Support for HP Scanjet 53xxC?

2005-03-17 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi all, Dan McGhee wrote: The slanted image shoud be a trivial off-by-one error - or alignment requirement by the firmware ... Just play a bit around with the window parameters and look at the difference. I think Marcus is making some good progress on it .. Yours, -- René Rebe - Rubensstr.

[sane-devel] The never ending hpusbscsi storry

2005-03-05 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Matthias Kindtner wrote: scanimage -L scanimage: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-avision.so.1: undefined symbol: sanei_usb_set_timeout With the latest backed you need to update include/sane/sanei_usb.h and sanei/sanei_usb.c from my SVN repository (will go into SANE CVS in

[sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-22 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: the problem is our SANE 1 standard, which defines the image format. We have currently only the possibility to pass RGB data to a frontend. The solution (whenever we can start) is SANE 2 where we have a more flexible approach for transmitting image data to a

[sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-22 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Major A wrote: - starting SANE 2 with, let's say 2 or three backends (in the end your Avision stuff, my Plustek backends (plustek, plustek_pp and u12, maybe some other VOLUNTEERS - hell lot of work to do ;) I've been suggesting that for months. As soon as a simple SANE2

[sane-devel] Re: HP 7450C, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, George Garvey wrote: You're not alone. I can't remember when I bought the 7450C, but it has worked sometimes, and then SANE is broken, and then worked, etc. I've never had the ADF work reliably, and that was the purpose of the purchase. Rene has had problems with the ADF on this

[sane-devel] Re: HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3

2005-02-17 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Thomas Frayne wrote: I do not recommend the HP7450C for use with SANE. I spent 18 months I have really no idea why you needed 18 months to get the scanner running. With any well done distribution it should work out of the box (well most probably not Debian or Gentoo - but I wrote well

[sane-devel] HP 7450C PowerSave and buttons

2005-01-27 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Brad Corrion wrote: Recently got my hands on a HP 7450C and have been anxiously installing and testing sane. For the most part, everything is doing fine. Two issues, however: 1) Can't get the front panel buttons to register. Tested with sanebuttons.d from

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-04 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Andreas Piening wrote: Well if you need a duo (aka. combo scan/print) device I think you'll not find one from Avision - sorry ... :-( What I mean is a standalone Printer and a standalone Scanner, both connected to a standard linux-based computer. The Printer can be any color-A3-laser

Please remove hpusbscsi Was: [sane-devel] HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, we should remove hpusbscsi from the Kernel. It is long obsolete and very unstable. I can send a patch for 2.4 and 2.6 (if needed) ;-) George Garvey wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:11:30PM -0800, Thomas Frayne wrote: ... As far as I know, Rene has made it pretty clear he doesn't

[sane-devel] HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Jens Westemeier wrote: Hi Thomas, I had the same problem with my SuSE 9.2 distribution. Recompiling the kernel without hpusbscsi might help. I left the kernel unchanged but entered the Just removing the modules(s) from /lib/modules quickly solves the problem without the need of a

[sane-devel] HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Thomas Frayne wrote: What distribution did you switch to? How do you find it in comparison to Fedora? http://www.exactcode.de/t2 Is quite nice (just some selfish PR here ;-). But designed for expert use - so yet without graphical installer and such ... (But rock solid, very

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: The Other thing is: Which interface to choose? I need to engineer the fastest solution possible, so I think SCSI is the fastest, am I right? Is the sane-backend so abstract that it can handle the scanner at USB/SCSI/FireWire or no matter what, or do I need

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Rene Rebe wrote: The Avision backend only supports SCSI and USB - there are no Avision IEEE1394 / Firewire -^ scanners in wide use (only one OEM model if I'm informed right). Yours, -- René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Andreas Piening wrote: I'm realy impressed by the quick and helpful answers, thank you very much! I took a closer look at the Epson GT-3 and the Avision @V5100. The Problem I have with the Avision: It has many features that I don't need like the standalone connection to a printer

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-02 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Andreas Piening wrote: I need to develop a linux-based copier-scanner solution for a library. For this system I need a DIN-A3 Scanner working with LINUX and therefor supported by SANE. I've looked at the supported devices list for the Scanners I know like the Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL

[sane-devel] DImage Scan Dual III

2004-12-11 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, thanks for your report. Ken Harris wrote: I have a Minolta DImage Scan Dual III that I used on my Mac, and I was wondering what would be needed to get it working under Linux. As you may recall, Gary Wong posted a preliminary report a while back[1] about trying to get it working -- with

[sane-devel] xscanimage/xsane not working on Mac OS X 10.3 G5

2004-12-09 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi Feizhou, Feizhou wrote: Both exit with 138 and report Bus error one or two seconds after being invoked on the command line. Your messages misses all the information we need to diagnose your problem (platform, scanner in use, ...). So you should have included that you run Mac OS X 10.3 on

[sane-devel] problems with HP 7450c

2004-12-07 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Marcus Hufgard (Kalkwerk Hufgard GmbH) wrote: SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7 scanimage -L Sorry, but this brings no debug information. Hm - maybe --enable-optimization disables them :-( The option is new to me and it is not used in our T2 (http://www.exactcode.de/t2) package ... Butt the

[sane-devel] xsane: segmentation fault

2004-12-06 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Martin Deppe wrote: well, it doesn't crash anymore - thank you so far - but it doesn't find the device anymore ... (none of xsane, scanimage, xscanimage or kooka) ... When I use the current version the following happens: -

[sane-devel] Problems with SANE 1.0.13 and HP ScanJet 5300C

2004-07-15 Thread Rene Rebe
HI, On: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:25:58 +0200, Thomas R=F6sch thomas.roe...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2004 22:11 schrieb jdebert: I installed Suse Linux 9.1 with SANE 1.0.13 two weeks ago and I a= m now trying to get my scanner HP ScanJet 5300C to work, but unfortunat= ely

[sane-devel] sane.h misses extern C

2004-07-14 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:27 +0200, Mattias Ellert mattias.ell...@tsl.uu.se wrote: Is there a good reason why the installed sane.h misses the usual header lines needed for compilation with C++? = Well, it's a C and not a C++ header and these #ifdefs are ugly :-) = If you put

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