Bug#940962: ITP: libinsane -- A cross-platform, cross-programming languages, cross scanner library that takes care of all the quirks of scanners.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thomas Perret <thomas.perret@phyx.fr>
* Package name : libinsane
Version : 1.0.1
Upstream Author : Jerome Flesch <jflesch@openpaper.work>
* URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/libinsane
* License : LGPL-3.0+
Programming Lang: C
Description : A cross-platform, cross-programming languages, cross scanner library that takes care of all the quirks of scanners.
Libinsane is *the* library to access scanners on both Linux and Windows. It's
cross-platform, cross-programming languages, cross-scanners :-). It takes care
of all the quirks of all the platforms and scanners
It has however some limitations:
- It is only designed to work with *scanners*, not webcams, not USB keys, etc
(think paper-eaters only)
- TWAIN API may display some dialogs. Libinsane cannot prevent them.
- Full bed page scan only: Presence of the option to set the scan area cannot
be guaranteed. You may have to crop the image later in your own application
(see [Paperwork](https://openpaper.work) for example).
- 24 bits color scans only (may be fixed later)
It is the successor of Pyinsane2[0] but shares no code with it.
This is a dependency of paperwork[1] package which I'm in the process of
packaging.
This package will be maintained in salsa.d.o in the group
openpaperwork-team with other paperwork dependencies.
As I'm not a DD, I'll need a sponsor for this package.
[0]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyinsane
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721287
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