[NTLUG:Discuss] xsane and pnm file format

[Ralph]

Howdy,
  The other option is to have xsane save jpeg files to begin with.  I
setup a linux scanner for the office at a company recently.  The default
option was to save images as pbm, but I changed it to save as jpeg
files.  It was a preference setting in xsane.  It was pretty obvious
once you start looking, but I don't have that machine handy to tell you
exactly where.
Good luck,
Ralph

On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:51 -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> "Allen Meyers" writes:
> - I recently discovered xsane and its super fast scanning ability as compared
> - to image scanning in XP with hp however the file recognition presents a
> - problem for windows user so is there a linux conversion program to satisfy
> - this need
> 
> Not entirely sure what you're asking for, but assuming you're
> asking for a way to convert from the pnm file that xsane creates
> to something that Windows might recognize, look at pnmtojpeg(1),
> part of the netpbm package.
>