sane-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, 1212u, e40, e50, Vuego 310s, Acer
300f, 310s, 610s, 610plus, Prisa 620s, Prisa 620u, Prisa
640u, Prisa 640bu, Guillemot Maxi Scan A4 Deluxe (SCSI)
(with varying success).
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
special
Where special is either the path-name for the special
device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI scan
ners, the special device name must be a generic SCSI
device or a symlink 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 see http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ for
details.
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
/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-snapscan.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-snapscan.so
The shared library implementing this backend (pre
sent on systems that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
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 /etc/sane.d. If the value of the
environment variable ends with the directory sepa
rator character, then the default directories are
searched after the explicitly specified directo
ries. For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to
"/tmp/config:" would result in directories
"tmp/config", ".", and "/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 ALSO
sane(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,
and Mikael Magnusson.
Man page by Henning Meier-Geinitz (mostly based on the web
pages and source code).
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