[sane-devel] Please help for my Xsane settings

[Jeremy]

On Monday 25 January 2010, Jin Chen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been playing with the settings for quite a while and the scanning
> results are still not good enough.
> 
> I was using Xsane 0.996 under Ubuntu 9.10 to scane blank writing pad paper
> with rule-lines. Note the paper is white and has no
> ink at all, except those rule-lines. When I scanned this kind of paper, the
> result image is always too bright to see the rule-lines (which are my
> concerns).

Are you scanning blank ruled paper just for testing your scanner, or does this 
serve some purpose? Fine thin horiontal lines are hard to scan without 
aliasing artifacts. If you simply need ruled writing paper, you could use 
latex or context to create the ruled stationery.