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<h1>Re: SANE V2</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 Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Tom Martone wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; I'd have to disagree with you on this on, Nick. If you have a scanner</i><br>
<i>&gt; that has an integral barcode/patchcode decoding feature that works on the</i><br>
<i>&gt; surrently scanned image data in the firmware of the scanner, do we want to</i><br>
<i>&gt; use SANE just to get the image data? Then do we get an OCR package to</i><br>
<i>&gt; decode in software, the barcodes out of the saved image data? I've</i><br>
<i>&gt; observed that the scanner firmware does it more quickly and more reliably, </i><br>
<i>&gt; than an OCR approach and it does it at scan time rather than a separate</i><br>
<i>&gt; pass.</i><br>
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Well, you make a very convincing argument, and you do have this hardware<br>
sat in front of you, which I don't. I asked this before, but I can't<br>
remember what exactly you said in response:<br>
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Does it make sense to you (considering the TWAIN way of doing it among<br>
other things) for us to provide the results of a stuff like barcode<br>
scans in a SANE Option (just like you can specify the R/G/B exposures<br>
used by an auto-calibrating slide scanner) OR more like the existing<br>
image transfer frames, only with text in?<br>
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Initially I thought that using SANE Options was a nicer way, because you<br>
can have something like this (I might be bending SANE's rules here a<br>
little bit, but I think it works today, in theory)<br>
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SANE Option "Barcodes", hardware feature, not user alterable, string<br>
constraint { "9 780201 835953", "3 057640 136993", "MULTIM-44-2731" }<br>
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But if this stuff is just another output from a scan which might also<br>
give us 5 JPEGs and a couple of G32D images, then I guess the text<br>
frame makes a lot of sense. Formatting it would be your problem :)<br>
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Nick.<br>
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