sane-snapscan(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-snapscan(5)NAMEsane-snapscan - SANE backend for AGFA SnapScan flatbed
scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-snapscan library implements a SANE (Scanner
Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to AGFA
SnapScan flatbed scanners. At present, the following scan-
ners are supported from this backend: AGFA SnapScan 300,
310, 600, and 1236s, 1236u, 1212u, e20, e25, e40, e50,
e60, Vuego 310s, Acer 300f, 310s, 610s, 610plus, Prisa
620s, Prisa 620u, Prisa 620ut, Prisa 640u, Prisa 640bu,
Prisa 1240, Prisa 3300, Prisa 4300, Prisa 5300 and Guille-
mot Maxi Scan A4 Deluxe (SCSI) (with varying success).
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
special
Where special is the path-name for the special device that
corresponds to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI scanners, the spe-
cial device name must be a generic SCSI device or a sym-
link to such a device. Under Linux, such a device name
could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example. See sane-
scsi(5) for details.
For USB scanners the devicename must contain the keyword
"usb", as in /dev/usbscanner or /dev/usb/scanner0. For
scanners that need a firmware upload before scanning add a
line starting with "firmware" followed by the fully quali-
fied path to your firmware file, e.g.
firmware /path/to/my/firmware.bin
For further details read http://snapscan.sourceforge.net.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the snapscan.conf file is a list of device
names that correspond to SnapScan scanners. Empty lines
and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. See
sane-scsi(5) on details of what constitutes a valid device
name.
FILES
/usr/freeware/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip-
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-snapscan.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-snapscan.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_SNAPSCAN
If the library was compiled with debug support
enabled, this environment variable controls the
debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 255
requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller
levels reduce verbosity.
BUGS
Man page doesn't provide much information yet.
SEE ALSOsane(7), sane-scsi(5)
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~charter/SnapScan/snapscan.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snapscan/ (new development
website)
AUTHOR
Kevin Charter, Franck Schneider, Michel Roelofs, Emmanuel
Blot, Mikko Tyolajarvi, David Mosberger-Tang, Wolfgang
Goeller, Petter Reinholdtsen, Gary Plewa, Sebastien Sable,
Oliver Schwartz and Mikael Magnusson.
Man page by Henning Meier-Geinitz (mostly based on the web
pages and source code).
sane-backends 1.0.12 26 May 2001 sane-snapscan(5)
