Pillow has sane support too

[bignaux]

see https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/blob/master/Sane/sanedoc.txt Perhaps we could merge effort here.

[jflesch]

This API comes from PIL. I used it initially in Paperwork, but I had many problems with it:

• it's not thread-safe (it's actually a libsane problem)
• It's almost the libsane API as-is. It provides pretty much no abstraction
• I couldn't figure out how to get the pieces of the scan as it goes. I'm not even sure if it's possible.
• If I remember correctly, it locks the Python interpreter during the scan (which doesn't help at all for the previous point :)

[jflesch]

.. also, Pillow is an image manipulation library. I don't think it should worry about scanner access. IMHO, it's off-topic for Pillow.

Anyway, I'm not going to "merge effort" here, so I'm closing this ticket. Please reopen if you're willing to do it.