Comment 12 for bug 521323
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| staedtler-przyborski (staedtler-przyborski-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: "Text" scan is in black-and-white, not greyscale | #12 |
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Scanner interfaces follow (seen over all available scanning applications) currently two paradigm:
a) Give access to all possibilities the scanner offers and do lot's of postprocessing when necessary ( Silverfast is here the best applicationto mention), ideally no external application is needed to give desired results in best available quality.
b) Show only a reduced subset of the possibilities to simplify scanning as much as possible (e.g. HP Twain is a horrible example for that). Ideally no external application is needed, as long as you use the scans only in the simplified use-scenarios. (Saving as PDF, Print, Mail ...).
As you can see in both cases the possibilities are not limited by the scanner itself. It's a decision of developers (and in some cases) of users demand.
Currently no (I mean this serious) scanning application available on Linux can fullfill a) or b).
Simple-Scan is on a good road to b), but lacks some features.