i just purchased a Casio QV-11 camera the other day and got
various utilities to work that query the camera and dump the pictures
out of it (QVplay). But this is all command-line stuff. Now i'd like
to make a SANE backend for that type of camera (based on the QVplay
code, as soon as i get permission from the author to reuse the code)
to be able to use (x)scanimage with it. The camera used a proprietary
'CAM' format to store the pictures, but this is easily transformed into
JPEG (as a matter of fact, i just finished yesterday a CAM plugin for
the GIMP based on the existing cam2jpeg utility, so now you can
load CAM pictures directly into the GIMP). Now i think i read in the
SANE doc that JPEG was not supported yet... i don't see the point of
translating a JPEG file into a bitmap that SANE can handle, since most
often users might convert the result to JPEG in the end anyway..
So here are basically the questions:
- how hard is it to write a backend? what's a good place to
start (which one is the simplest ?) ?
- when will there be JPEG support in the SANE interface? i guess
other camera (such as the Kodak ones?) also use a format
that's close to JPEG...
Thanks for your (numerous!) replies...
jb.
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