Image addressing

Unlike previous high-volume scanners from Kodak, the i800 Series

 

Scanners moved all image address functionality to the host. This

 

includes index format, starting image address, image address format

 

and level rules.

Image address format

The image address format can be from one to four fields. Each field

 

may be up to 9 characters. Total image address length with delimiters

 

is 30 characters. Each field may use level 1, level 2, level 3, and fixed

 

fields, and must be explicitly defined by the application. Image address

 

format is flexible and includes the ability to define four fixed fields. See

 

Chapter 3 or 4 (depending on your driver) for more information.

 

The order of importance for the fields (from highest to lowest) is

 

fixed, level 3, level 2, level 1. When defining an image address,

 

the field with the highest importance must always be to the left.

 

For example, F321 is a valid format. F123 is not a valid format.

 

You are not required to use all four fields. If you chose to use

 

fewer than four fields, you must specify a field width of 0 for any

 

unused field. 0 width fields may not be between two non-zero

 

width fields.

 

When defining fields, you can only have one field assigned to

 

each individual level. For example, FF21 is a valid format. FF11

 

is not a valid format.

 

When defining more than one fixed field the fixed field values

 

must be to the left of any index value. Fixed fields may not be

 

between level fields. For example, FFF1 is a valid format. FF1F

 

is not a valid format.

Starting image address/

The host application must always seed the scanner with the starting

next image address

image address. It is no longer controlled within the scanner. The

 

scanner will return the image address associated with each image in

 

the image header. The application can track this image address for use

 

in setting the next image address when restarting the scanner.

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Kodak i800 Series manual Image addressing, Image address format, Starting image address, Next image address