SANE Scanner Access Now Easy                     sane-snapscan(5)



NAME
     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  scanners  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 Guillemot 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  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 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 /usr/share/sane/snapscan/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
     /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
          The backend configuration file (see also description of
          SANECONFIGDIR below).

     /usr/lib/sane/libsane-snapscan.a
          The static library implementing this backend.



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     /usr/lib/sane/libsane-snapscan.so
          The shared library implementing this  backend  (present
          on systems that support dynamic loading).

ENVIRONMENT
     SANECONFIGDIR
          This environment variable specifies the list of  direc-
          tories  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 separator character, then the default  direc-
          tories  are  searched  after  the  explicitly specified
          directories.  For example, setting  SANECONFIGDIR  to
          "/tmp/config:"     would    result    in    directories
          "tmp/config", ".", and "/etc/sane.d" being searched (in
          this order).

     SANEDEBUGSNAPSCAN
          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,
     Oliver Schwartz and Mikael Magnusson.
     Man page by Henning Meier-Geinitz (mostly based on  the  web
     pages and source code).

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:




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       ATRIBUTE TYPE     ATRIBUTE VALUE 
    
     Availability         SUNWsane-backend
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted     
    

NOTES
     Source for SANE is available on http:/opensolaris.org.













































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