I have an HP6250C with an ADF and I have made a small patch to the
hp backend to have it report SANE_STATUS_NO_DOCS when the scanner
detects that it is 'out of paper'. I'm also working on a backend
for Bell and Howell Copiscan II scanners. These are high speed
document scanners (around 40 page per minute) that have feeders.
To support this, I took scanimage and reworked it a bit into something
I call scanadf which scans until SANE_STATUS_NO_DOCS is reported
writing images into consecutively numbered files.
I'd love to see you add similar support to xsane. I've been using
it and I think it is a great program! I'd be happy to test xsane's
feeder support with each of these scanners.
I've also added in an escape hatch for a 'raw' format in scanadf
that allows me to get compressed data from the Bell and Howell
scanner through the SANE api. The approach is a bit different
that the approach in xsane, attempting to solve a somewhat different
problem.
The backend is being ported over to Sparc/Solaris to shake out any
platform dependencies and is not ready at this point, but the hp
patch and the scanadf frontend should be fine.
You can take a look at a page I started to put together. It's at
http://www.martoneconsulting.com/sane-bh.html
Please note that the Bell and Howell backend on the site is not
really ready for public consumption, but I'd be interested in hearing
from anyone who has one of these scanners. I'm going to be away for
a few days, so I may not be able to respond as quickly as I would
like.
Thanks,
Tom Martone
Scan, scan, scan...
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