Can SANE backend do this

Does anyone who know if Sane or scanimage can do the 
following requirements:  I have a Fujitsu 5120C

I want to scan many stack of paper without counting the page

on each stack anD save these scanned information into one 
big file.

Example work flow.

1.Put a first stack of paper on the scanner 

2.Click on a START SCAN button 

3.Scanner will do it task by scan through the whole stack of
paper.   

4.Operator will put on another stack of paper and click on
the CONTINUE SCAN button.

5.Step # 4 above can be repeate as many time as the operator

needed.

6.Once, the operator decided He/She done with that 
particular job.  He or She will click on the FINISH SCAN 
button and all the scanned information from all the paper 
will need to write to one file. 
 
Do you know how or what syntax I can use to call the 
START SCAN,  CONTINUE SCAN and FINISH SCAN?

I want START SCAN to call the following syntax 
scanimage ??????


I want CONTINUE SCAN to call the following syntax 
scanimage ??????


I want FINISH SCAN to call the following syntax 
scanimage ??????




Any help will greatly apprciate.
 
Thanks much, 
Tom    

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Hi Tom,

I don't have the same scanner as you, but the following
works fine for 
mine (Dell 1600n) under SANE:

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Tom Miller wrote:
> 1.Put a first stack of paper on the scanner
> 2.Click on a START SCAN button

scanimage --batch

> 6.Once, the operator decided He/She done with that
> particular job.  He or She will click on the FINISH
SCAN
> button and all the scanned information from all the
paper
> will need to write to one file.

Ctrl-C (perhaps a couple of times depending on your backend)

cheers,
Jon

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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jon Chambers wrote:

>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I don't have the same scanner as you, but the following
works fine for mine 
> (Dell 1600n) under SANE:
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Tom Miller wrote:
>> 1.Put a first stack of paper on the scanner
>> 2.Click on a START SCAN button
>
> scanimage --batch
>
>> 6.Once, the operator decided He/She done with that
>> particular job.  He or She will click on the FINISH
SCAN
>> button and all the scanned information from all the
paper
>> will need to write to one file.
>
> Ctrl-C (perhaps a couple of times depending on your
backend)
>

unfortunately, this does not meet the spirit of tom's
request, as it will 
make multiple files, and it does not handle the reloading of
the hopper.

tom, you need to investigate the existing front-ends, like 
xsane/kooka/scanadf and see if they do this. if not, perhaps
you can 
write a new front-end that does this, as you and i talked
about 
previously. this is a front-end issue, not backend.

there was a thread earlier today on this list about
single-file pdf 
generation from multiple input images. this might give you a
place to 
start from.

allan
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