sane-hp5400(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-hp5400(5)NAMEsane-hp5400 - SANE backend for Hewlett-Packard 54XX scan-
ners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-hp5400 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy) backend that provides access to the following
Hewlett-Packard USB flatbed scanners:
ScanJet 5400C
ScanJet 5470C
ScanJet 5490C
More details can be found on the hp5400 backend homepage
http://hp5400backend.sourceforge.net/.
This is ALPHA software. Keep your hand at the scanner's
plug and unplug it, if the head bumps at the end of the
scan area. See also the BUGS section.
If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that
works with this backend, please let us know this by send-
ing the scanner's exact model name and the USB vendor and
device ids (e.g. from /proc/bus/usb/devices, sane-find-
scanner or syslog) to us. Even if the scanner's name is
only slightly different from the models mentioned above,
please let us know.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the hp5400.conf file is a list of usb
lines containing vendor and product ids that correspond to
USB scanners. The file can also contain the names of
device files that correspond to an HP 54XX scanner. Empty
lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.
The scanners are autodetected by usb vendor_id product_id
statements which are already included into hp5400.conf.
"vendor_id" and "product_id" are hexadecimal numbers that
identify the scanner. If autodetection does not work, add
the device name of your scanner to the configuration file,
e.g. /dev/usb/scanner0.
FILES
/usr/freeware/etc/sane.d/hp5400.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip-
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-hp5400.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-hp5400.so
The shared library implementing this backend (pre-
sent on systems that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_CONFIG_DIR
This environment variable specifies the list of
directories that may contain the configuration
file. Under UNIX, the directories are separated by
a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a
semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the
configuration file is searched in two default
directories: first, the current working directory
(".") and then in /usr/freeware/etc/sane.d. If the
value of the environment variable ends with the
directory separator character, then the default
directories are searched after the explicitly spec-
ified directories. For example, setting SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directo-
ries "tmp/config", ".", and "/usr/free-
ware/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).
SANE_DEBUG_HP5400
If the library was compiled with debug support
enabled, this environment variable controls the
debug level for this backend. Higher debug levels
increase the verbosity of the output.
Example: export SANE_DEBUG_HP5400=4
SEE ALSOsane(7), sane-usb(5),
http://hp5400backend.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Thomas Soumar-
mon <soumarmt@nerim.net>. Manpage by Henning Meier-Geinitz
<henning@meier-geinitz.de>.
BUGS
Scanning is only tested with Linux/ix86/gcc. Be careful
when testing on other operating systems and especially on
big-endian platforms. The scanner may get wrong data.
sane-backends 1.0.12 17 Apr 2003 sane-hp5400(5)
