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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2015-10-08 12:33:06 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2015-10-08 12:33:06 +0200
commit24feb9f37f302c006ba51502da817325200e74d0 (patch)
treed4451782449e5fcbae9cbe3778c51a8c6cb3c36d /doc/scanimage.man
parent76b69ebb381d40458339c9940135740797cbd2d4 (diff)
parentcfd27ef2ad8b005fd47ab41ef29b71d9e3d48201 (diff)
Merge tag 'upstream/1.0.25'
Upstream version 1.0.25
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@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ command-line options. After command-line processing,
normally proceeds to acquire an image. The image data is written to
standard output in one of the PNM (portable aNyMaP) formats (PBM for
black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and PPM for color
-images) or in TIFF (black-and-white, grayscale or color).
+images), TIFF format (black-and-white, grayscale or color), PNG format,
+or JPEG format.
.B scanimage
accesses image acquisition devices through the
.B SANE
@@ -103,9 +104,11 @@ The
option selects how image data is written to standard output.
.I format
can be
-.B pnm
+.BR pnm ,
+.BR tiff ,
+.BR png ,
or
-.BR tiff.
+.BR jpeg .
If
.B \-\-format
is not used, PNM is written.
@@ -164,8 +167,8 @@ feeders.
is used to specify the format of the filename that each page will be written
to. Each page is written out to a single file. If
.I format
-is not specified, the default of out%d.pnm (or out%d.tif for \-\-format tiff)
-will be used.
+is not specified, the default of out%d.pnm (or out%d.tif for \-\-format tiff,
+out%d.png for \-\-format png or out%d.jpg for \-\- format jpeg) will be used.
.I format
is given as a printf style string with one integer parameter.
.B \-\-batch\-start
@@ -262,9 +265,9 @@ level.
.PP
The
.B \-B
-or
-.B \-\-buffer-size
-changes the input buffer size from 32KB to the number kB specified or 1M.
+option without argument changes the input buffer size from the default 32KB to 1MB. For finer grained control, use
+.B \-\-buffer-size=
+followed by the number of KB.
.PP
The
.B \-V