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<h1>Re: SANE_FRAME Formats (was Re: xsane-0.31 available)</h1>
<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Tom Martone wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Document scanners such as the Bell+Howell scanners can produce CCITT-G3,</i><br>
<i>&gt; CCITT-G3-2D, and CCITT-G4 compressed image streams. I'm not sure if it</i><br>
<i>&gt; would be appropriate to classify these formats as proprietary although</i><br>
<i>&gt; they are certainly not specifically supported by SANE. </i><br>
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Unless I'm sorely mistaken, this algorithm is so cheap that you can<br>
trivially do it inline. Is there a problem with doing this in your<br>
backend? If it turns out to be too expensive, we should probably add<br>
one or more frame types as necessary to SANE.<br>
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The barcode stuff is a separate issue, and I suspect there's more to it<br>
than meets the eye -- can you really just scan barcode string data off<br>
A4 pages as you're going along? Or is it meant for indentifying the<br>
documents somehow?<br>
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If the barcodes aren't really "image data" as such you can expose them<br>
as an option text string which is changed by the backend only and<br>
updates for each new page. Then a custom frontend can read the codes<br>
before/during/after each page is scanned. No magic needed :)<br>
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NB There is NO NEED for each and every frontend to support each and every<br>
possible FRAME format. A bulk-scanning app needn't support stuff used<br>
only in desktop scanners, and a photo-oriented app needn't do CCITT.<br>
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Nick.<br>
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