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NAME

       sane-genesys  -  SANE  backend  for GL646, GL841, GL843, GL847 and GL124 based USB flatbed
       scanners

DESCRIPTION

       The sane-genesys library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides
       access  to  USB flatbed scanners based on the Genesys GL646, GL841, GL843, GL847 and GL124
       chips.  At present, the following scanners are known to work with this backend:

              Canon LiDE 35/40/50/60/100/110/120/200/210/220/700
              Hewlett-Packard HP2300C/HP2400/HP3670/HP3690/G4010/G4050
              Medion MD5345/MD6228/MD6274
              Panasonic KV-SS080
              Plustek OpticBook 3600
              Pentax DSmobile 600
              Syscan/Ambir DocketPORT 467/485/487/665/685
              Visioneer OneTouch 7100/Strobe XP100 (rev3)/XP200/XP300/Roadwarrior
              Xerox Travel Scanner 100, OneTouch 2400

       This is stable software for supported models. But if you test new  or  untested  scanners,
       keep  your  hand  at the scanner's plug and unplug it, if the head bumps at the end of the
       scan area.

       If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, please
       let  me  know this by sending 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  the  sane-devel
       mailing  list.  Even  if  the  scanner's  name  is only slightly different from the models
       mentioned above, please let me know.

       If you own a scanner that isn't detected by the genesys backend but has  a  GL646,  GL841,
       GL843, GL847 or GL124 chipset, you can try to add it to the backend.

CALIBRATION

       To  give  correct  image  quality,  sheet  fed  scanners  need  to be calibrated using the
       calibration sheet sold with the scanner. To do calibration, you must insert this target in
       the feeder then start calibration either by passing the --calibrate option to scanimage or
       by clicking on the available 'calibrate' button in the 'advanced options' in  a  graphical
       frontend.  The  result of the calibration is stored in a file in the home directory of the
       user doing it.  If you plug the scanner in another machine or use it with another account,
       calibration  will  have to be redone, unless you use the --calibration-file option.  If no
       home directory is defined, USERAPPPROFILE will be used, then TMPDIR or  TMP.  If  none  of
       these  directories  exist, the backend will try to write in the current working directory.
       Flatbed scanners also make use of the calibration file as a  cache  to  avoid  calibration
       before  each  scan.  Calibration  file  name  is the name of the scanner model if only one
       scanner is detected. In the case of several identical model, the file  name  will  be  the
       name of the logical USB device name. The expiration time manages the time a calibration is
       valid in cache.  A value of -1 means forever, 0 means no cache.

EXTRAS SCAN OPTIONS

       --lamp-off-time number
                      The lamp will be turned off after the given time (in minutes). A value of 0
              means that the lamp won't be turned off.

       --threshold percent
                   0..100%  (in  steps  of  1).  Select  minimum brightness to get a white point.
              Pixels with brightness below that value will be scanned as black.

       --brightness value
                   -100..100  (in  steps  of  1).  Set  the  brightness  enhancement.  0  for  no
              enhancement,  negative  values  to  decrease  brigthness,  and  positive  values to
              increase it.

       --contrast value
                   -100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the contrast enhancement. 0 for no enhancement,
              negative values to decrease contrast, and positive values to increase it.

       --disable-interpolation yes|no
                      When using high resolutions where the horizontal resolution is smaller than
              vertical resolution, data is expanded by software  to  preserve  picture  geometry.
              This can be disabled by this option to get real scanned data.

       --disable-dynamic-lineart yes|no
                      Disable  use  of a software adaptive algorithm to generate lineart and rely
              on hardware lineart.

       --color-filter None|Red|Green|Blue
                      When using gray or lineart this option selects  the  used  color.  Using  a
              color  filter will give a monochrome scan. CIS based scanners can to true gray when
              no filter (None value) is selected.

       --lamp-off-scan
                      The lamp will be turned off during the scan. Calibration is still done with
              lamp on.

       --clear-calibration
                      Clear  calibration  cache data, triggering a new calibration for the device
              when the next scan will happen.

       --calibration-file
                      Specify the calibration file name to use. At least the directory containing
              the  file  must  exist,  since  it won't be created. This option is disabled if the
              backend is ran as root. It maybe used in case of  sheet-fed  scanners  to  share  a
              calibration file for several users.

       --expiration-time
                      Specify  the time (in minutes) a cached calibration is considered valid. If
              older than the given value, a new calibration is done.  A  value  of  -1  means  no
              expiration  and  cached  value  are  kept  forever  unless  cleared by userwith the
              calibration clear option. A value of 0 means cache is disabled.

       Additionally,  several  'software'  options  are  exposed  by  the  backend.   These   are
       reimplementations  of  features  provided  natively by larger scanners, but running on the
       host computer. This enables smaller machines to have  similar  capabilities.  Please  note
       that  these  features  are  somewhat simplistic, and may not perform as well as the native
       implementations. Note also that these features all  require  that  the  driver  cache  the
       entire  image  in  memory.  This  will  almost certainly result in a reduction of scanning
       speed.

       --swcrop
                   Requests the driver to detect the extremities of the paper within  the  larger
              image, and crop the empty edges.

       --swdeskew
                   Requests  the  driver  to  detect  the rotation of the paper within the larger
              image, and counter the rotation.

       --swdespeck --despeck X
                   Requests the driver to find and remove dots of X diameter or smaller from  the
              image, and fill the space with the average surrounding color.

       --swskip 0..100% (in steps of 1) [0]
                      Request driver to discard pages with low numbers of dark pixels.

       --swderotate[=(yes|no)] [no]
                      Request driver to detect and correct 90 degree image rotation.

SYSTEM ISSUES

       This   backend  needs  libusb-0.1.6  or  later  installed,  and  hasn't  tested  in  other
       configuration than a linux kernel 2.6.9 or higher. However, it should work any system with
       libusb  where  the  SANE  package can be compiled. For setting permissions and general USB
       information look at sane-usb(5).

CONFIGURATION

       The contents of the genesys.conf file is a list of usb lines containing vendor and product
       ids  that correspond to USB scanners. The file can also contain option lines.  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 genesys.conf.  "vendor_id"
       and "product_id" are hexadecimal numbers that identify the scanner.

FILES

       @CONFIGDIR@/genesys.conf
              The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       @LIBDIR@/libsane-genesys.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       @LIBDIR@/libsane-genesys.so
              The shared library implementing this  backend  (present  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 @CONFIGDIR@.  If the value of the environment
              variable ends with the directory separator character, then the default  directories
              are  searched  after  the  explicitly  specified directories.  For example, setting
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in  directories  "tmp/config",  ".",
              and "@CONFIGDIR@" being searched (in this order).

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS
              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.  If  the  debug level is set to 1 or higher, some debug
              options become available that are normally hidden. Handle them with care. This will
              print messages related to core genesys functions.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_LOW
              This  environment  variable controls the debug level for low level functions common
              to all genesys ASICs.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL646
              This environment variable controls the debug level  for  the  specific  GL646  code
              part.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL841
              This  environment  variable  controls  the  debug level for the specific GL841 code
              part.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL843
              This environment variable controls the debug level  for  the  specific  GL843  code
              part.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL847
              This  environment  variable  controls  the  debug level for the specific GL847 code
              part.

       SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL124
              This environment variable controls the debug level  for  the  specific  GL124  code
              part.

              Example (full and highly verbose output for gl646):
              export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255
              export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_LOW=255
              export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL646=255

CREDITS

       Jack McGill for donating several sheetfed and flatbed scanners, which made possible to add
       support for them in the genesys backend:
              Hewlett-Packard HP3670
              Visioneer Strobe XP100 (rev3)/XP200/XP300/Roadwarrior
              Canon LiDE 200
              Pentax DSmobile 600
              Syscan/Ambir DocketPORT 467/485/487/665/685
              Xerox Travel Scanner 100, Onetouch 2400

       cncsolutions (http://www.cncsolutions.com.br) sponsored and  supported  the  work  on  the
       Panasonic KV-SS080.

       Brian Paavo from Benthic Science Limited for donating a Canoscan LiDE 700F.

       Dany Qumsiyeh for donating a Canoscan LiDE 210 and a LiDE 220.

       Luc Verhaegen for donating a Canoscan LiDE 120.

SEE ALSO

       sane(7), sane-usb(5)

AUTHOR

       Oliver Rauch
       Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
       Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>
       Stéphane Voltz <stef.dev@free.fr>
       Philipp Schmid <philipp8288@web.de>
       Pierre Willenbrock <pierre@pirsoft.dnsalias.org>
       Alexey Osipov <simba@lerlan.ru> for HP2400 final support

LIMITATIONS

       Powersaving  isn't  implemented  for gl646 based scanner. Dynamic (emulated from gray data
       and with dithering) isn't enabled for gl646 scanners. Hardware lineart is  limited  up  to
       600 dpi for gl847 based scanners, due to the way image sensors are built.

       This backend will be much slower if not using libusb-1.0. So be sure that sane-backends is
       built with the --enable-libusb_1_0 option.

BUGS

       For the LiDE 200, the scanned data at 4800 dpi is obtained "as is" from sensor.  It  seems
       the windows driver does some digital processing to improve it, which is not implemented in
       the backend.

@PACKAGEVERSION@                            4 Jul 2012                            sane-genesys(5)