> - xscan: scanning of images whose heights is not known a priori is not
> supported yet; this is going to be important for handheld scanners
> Does anybody have ideas on how to implement this, and/or has it been
> done in 0.57?
I don't know, if it has been implemented, but the idea is to read data
until SANE_EOF is returned from the read call.
> The easiest way I can think of is to have a call to
> sane_get_parameters after the scan has completed to find out what
> actually happened.
NO. This would mean buffering the whole image in the SANE driver.
This is not only RAm-consuming, it also prevents transferring the image
as early as possible to show scan progress and do postprocessing.
> Maybe space for the PNM header could be reserved before the raw data ...
> Then, this could be transformed into a correct PNM header after the
> raw scanner data had been written.
Yes. This is how it is intended.
CU,Andy
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