Re: Error codes returned by Fujitsu fi-5900c?

Thanks. I never knew this existed. It's really great!

I have to use a modified fujitsu.so to add a patch that Allan gave us some
years ago.

I wonder if the API will pick up the modified .so as long as
LD_LIBRARY_PATH has the path?


-- Wes


On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 9:03 AM Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/12/2023 19:16, Wes Rishel wrote:
> > re: Really, for what you are trying to do, you might be better off
> > interfacing with the SANE API instead of trying to drive scanimage.
> >
> > Thanks. This is something I have thought before. Right now I invoke
> > scanimage as a subprocess for each batch, so there is a noticeable delay
> > while it polls the USB addresses. It would be nice to do that once and
> > have each batch start quickly. If I had more access to the scanner for
> > debugging I might use that approach.
> >
> > Meanwhile I will check out scanimage sources.
>
> When I am away from my scanner and want to hack (and indeed for things
> like unit tests), I use the "test" backend.
>
> It is not exactly the same as a fujitsu scanner, but for most frontend
> development, I find it very useful.
>
> I would also recommend using the C, Python, or Perl APIs for libsane
> rather than wrapping scanimage.
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff
>