Re: New idea for sane.

Andre Couture (acouture@videotron.ca)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:36:26 -0500

You could simply do a shell script that call scanimage multiple times,
you put a message on the screen to "press any key" to make the next scan.

Dirty but cheap+easy solution!

/ac

Turcat Jean-Philippe wrote:

> Hi, I had an idea for sane which is not that new but is not currently
> implemented.
>
> Scanning only one photo with gimp is easy and great. But scanning
> 200 photos is just a nightmare. I had a previous software (under
> winblows...) that allowed a batch scanning (not more than 10 scan
> because of crashing).
>
> The alpha curve
> channel was done automaticely (following a special ratio) after every
> scan. The image was then saved on a file using a
> common name with a index number increased after each scan without asking
> the compression ratio of the jpeg for example. This
> was very useful because the only operation needed was to put the image
> isnide the scanner, and then, press start.
>
> I was wondering if any has though about this option. Maybe the
> problems comes from gimp that cannot saved without asking a compression
> ratio. Anyway, sane rocks.
>
> Thanks.
>
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