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NAME

       scanimage - scan an image

SYNOPSIS

       scanimage   [-d|--device-name  dev]  [--format  format]  [-i|--icc-profile  profile]  [-L|--list-devices]
       [-f|--formatted-device-list format] [-b|--batch [=format]] [--batch-start  start]  [--batch-count  count]
       [--batch-increment  increment]  [--batch-double]  [--accept-md5-only]  [-p|--progress] [-o|--output-file]
       [-n|--dont-scan] [-T|--test] [-A|--all-options]  [-h|--help]  [-v|--verbose]  [-B|--buffer-size  [=size]]
       [-V|--version] [device-specific-options]

DESCRIPTION

       scanimage  is  a  command-line interface to control image acquisition devices such as flatbed scanners or
       cameras.  The device is controlled via command-line options.  After  command-line  processing,  scanimage
       normally  proceeds  to  acquire an image.  The image data is written to standard output in one of the PNM
       (portable aNyMaP) formats (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and  PPM  for  color
       images),  TIFF  format  (black-and-white,  grayscale  or  color),  PNG format, or JPEG format.  scanimage
       accesses image acquisition devices through the SANE (Scanner Access Now  Easy)  interface  and  can  thus
       support  any  device  for which there exists a SANE backend (try apropos sane- to get a list of available
       backends).

EXAMPLES

       To get a list of devices:

         scanimage -L

       To scan with default settings to the file image.pnm:

         scanimage >image.pnm

       To scan 100x100 mm to the file image.tiff (-x and -y may not be available with all devices):

         scanimage -x 100 -y 100 --format=tiff >image.tiff

       To print all available options:

         scanimage -h

OPTIONS

       Remark: Parameter are defined by the backends. So are --mode Gray and --mode Grayscale  in  use.   Please
       read the backend documentation first.

       Parameters  are  separated  by  a  blank from single-character options (e.g.  -d epson) and by a "=" from
       multi-character options (e.g. --device-name=epson).

       The -d or --device-name options  must  be  followed  by  a  SANE  device-name  like  `epson:/dev/sg0'  or
       `hp:/dev/usbscanner0'.   A  (partial)  list  of available devices can be obtained with the --list-devices
       option (see below).  If no device-name is specified explicitly, scanimage reads a  device-name  from  the
       environment  variable  SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE.   If this variable is not set, scanimage will attempt to open
       the first available device.

       The --format format option selects how image data is written to standard output or the file specified  by
       the  --output-file  option.  format can be pnm, tiff, png, or jpeg.  If --format is not specified, PNM is
       written by default.

       The -i or --icc-profile option is used to include an ICC profile into a TIFF file.

       The -L or --list-devices option requests a (partial) list of devices that are available.  The list is not
       complete since some devices may be available, but are not listed in any of the configuration files (which
       are typically stored in directory @CONFIGDIR@).  This is particularly the case  when  accessing  scanners
       through  the network.  If a device is not listed in a configuration file, the only way to access it is by
       its full device name.  You may need to consult your system administrator to find out the  names  of  such
       devices.

       The  -f  or --formatted-device-list option works similar to --list-devices, but requires a format string.
       scanimage replaces the placeholders %d %v %m %t %i %n with the device  name,  vendor  name,  model  name,
       scanner type, an index number and newline respectively. The command

              scanimage -f  scanner number %i device %d is a %t, model %m, produced by %v 

       will produce something like:

              scanner  number  0   device  sharp:/dev/sg1  is  a  flatbed scanner, model JX250 SCSI, produced by
              SHARP

       The --batch* options provide the  features  for  scanning  documents  using  document  feeders.   --batch
       [format]  is  used to specify the format of the filename that each page will be written to.  Each page is
       written out to a single file.  If format is not specified, the default of  out%d.pnm  (or  out%d.tif  for
       --format  tiff, out%d.png for --format png or out%d.jpg for -- format jpeg) will be used.  This option is
       incompatible with the --output-path option.  format is given as a printf style string  with  one  integer
       parameter.  --batch-start start selects the page number to start naming files with. If this option is not
       given, the counter will start at 1.  --batch-count count specifies the number  of  pages  to  attempt  to
       scan.   If  not  given, scanimage will continue scanning until the scanner returns a state other than OK.
       Not all scanners with document feeders signal when the ADF is empty, use  this  command  to  work  around
       them.   With  --batch-increment  increment  you  can change the amount that the number in the filename is
       incremented by.  Generally this is used when you are scanning double-sided documents  on  a  single-sided
       document  feeder.   A specific command is provided to aid this: --batch-double will automatically set the
       increment to 2.  --batch-prompt will ask for pressing RETURN before scanning a page. This can be used for
       scanning multiple pages without an automatic document feeder.

       The --accept-md5-only option only accepts user authorization requests that support MD5 security. The SANE
       network daemon (saned) is capable of doing such requests. See saned(8).

       The -p or --progress option requests that scanimage prints a progress counter. It shows  how  much  image
       data of the current image has already been received by scanimage (in percent).

       The  -o or --output-file option requests that scanimage saves the scanning output to the given path. This
       option is incompatible with the --batch option. The program will try to  guess  --format  from  the  file
       name.  If that is not possible, it will print an error message and exit.

       The  -n  or  --dont-scan  option  requests  that scanimage only sets the options provided by the user but
       doesn't actually perform a scan. This option can be  used  to  e.g.  turn  off  the  scanner's  lamp  (if
       supported by the backend).

       The  -T  or  --test  option  requests  that scanimage performs a few simple sanity tests to make sure the
       backend works as defined by the SANE API (in particular the  sane_read  function  is  exercised  by  this
       test).

       The  -A  or --all-options option requests that scanimage lists all available options exposed the backend,
       including button options.  The information is printed on standard output and no scan will be done.

       The -h or --help options request help information.  The information is printed on standard output and  in
       this case, no attempt will be made to acquire an image.

       The  -v  or  --verbose  options  increase the verbosity of the operation of scanimage.  The option may be
       specified repeatedly, each time increasing the verbosity level.

       The -B option without argument changes the input buffer size from the default 32KB  to  1MB.   For  finer
       grained control, use --buffer-size= followed by the number of KB.

       The  -V  or  --version  option  requests  that scanimage prints the program and package name, the version
       number of the SANE distribution that it came with and the version of the backend that it  loads.  Usually
       that's  the dll backend. If more information about the version numbers of the backends are necessary, the
       DEBUG variable for the dll backend can be used. Example: SANE_DEBUG_DLL=3 scanimage -L.

       As you might imagine, much of the power of scanimage comes from the fact that it  can  control  any  SANE
       backend.  Thus, the exact set of command-line options depends on the capabilities of the selected device.
       To see the options for a device named dev, invoke scanimage via a command-line of the form:

              scanimage --help --device-name dev

       The documentation for the device-specific options  printed  by  --help  is  best  explained  with  a  few
       examples:

        -l 0..218mm [0]
           Top-left x position of scan area.

              The  description above shows that option -l expects an option value in the range from 0 to 218 mm.
              The value in square brackets indicates that the current  option  value  is  0  mm.  Most  backends
              provide  similar geometry options for top-left y position (-t), width (-x) and height of scan-area
              (-y).

        --brightness -100..100% [0]
           Controls the brightness of the acquired image.

              The description above shows that option --brightness expects an option value  in  the  range  from
              -100  to  100  percent.  The value in square brackets indicates that the current option value is 0
              percent.

        --default-enhancements
           Set default values for enhancement controls.

              The description above shows that option --default-enhancements has no option value.  It should  be
              thought  of  as  having  an immediate effect at the point of the command-line at which it appears.
              For example, since this option resets the --brightness option,  the  option-pair  --brightness  50
              --default-enhancements would effectively be a no-op.

        --mode Lineart|Gray|Color [Gray]
           Selects the scan mode (e.g., lineart or color).

              The description above shows that option --mode accepts an argument that must be one of the strings
              Lineart, Gray, or Color.  The value in the square bracket indicates that the option  is  currently
              set  to Gray.  For convenience, it is legal to abbreviate the string values as long as they remain
              unique.  Also, the case of the spelling doesn't matter.  For example, option setting --mode col is
              identical to --mode Color.

        --custom-gamma[=(yes|no)] [inactive]
           Determines whether a builtin or a custom gamma-table
           should be used.

              The  description  above  shows  that option --custom-gamma expects either no option value, a "yes"
              string, or a "no" string.  Specifying the option with no value is equivalent to specifying  "yes".
              The  value  in  square-brackets  indicates  that  the  option  is  not currently active.  That is,
              attempting to set the option would result in an error  message.   The  set  of  available  options
              typically  depends  on the settings of other options.  For example, the --custom-gamma table might
              be active only when a grayscale or color scan-mode has been requested.

              Note that the --help option is processed only after all other options have been  processed.   This
              makes  it  possible to see the option settings for a particular mode by specifying the appropriate
              mode-options along with the --help option.  For example, the command-line:

              scanimage --help --mode color

              would print the option settings that are in effect when the color-mode is selected.

        --gamma-table 0..255,...
           Gamma-correction table.  In color mode this option
           equally affects the red, green, and blue channels
           simultaneously (i.e., it is an intensity gamma table).

              The description above shows that option --gamma-table expects zero or more values in the  range  0
              to 255.  For example, a legal value for this option would be "3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12".  Since it's
              cumbersome to specify long vectors in this form, the same can be expressed by the abbreviated form
              "[0]3-[9]12".   What  this means is that the first vector element is set to 3, the 9-th element is
              set to 12 and the values in between are interpolated linearly.   Of  course,  it  is  possible  to
              specify  multiple such linear segments.  For example, "[0]3-[2]3-[6]7,[7]10-[9]6" is equivalent to
              "3,3,3,4,5,6,7,10,8,6".  The program gamma4scanimage can be used to  generate  such  gamma  tables
              (see gamma4scanimage(1) for details).

        --filename <string> [/tmp/input.ppm]
           The filename of the image to be loaded.

              The  description  above  is  an  example  of an option that takes an arbitrary string value (which
              happens to be a filename).  Again, the value in brackets show that the option is  current  set  to
              the filename /tmp/input.ppm.

ENVIRONMENT

       SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE
              The default device-name.

FILES

       @CONFIGDIR@
              This  directory  holds various configuration files.  For details, please refer to the manual pages
              listed below.

       ~/.sane/pass
              This file contains lines of the form

              user:password:resource

              scanimage uses this information to answer user authorization requests automatically. The file must
              have   0600   permissions  or  stricter.  You  should  use  this  file  in  conjunction  with  the
              --accept-md5-only option to avoid server-side attacks. The resource may contain any character  but
              is limited to 127 characters.

SEE ALSO

       sane(7),  gamma4scanimage(1),  xscanimage(1),  xcam(1),  xsane(1),  scanadf(1), sane-dll(5), sane-net(5),
       sane-"backendname"(5)

AUTHOR

       David Mosberger, Andreas Beck, Gordon Matzigkeit, Caskey Dickson, and many  others.   For  questions  and
       comments contact the sane-devel mailinglist (see http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html).

BUGS

       For  vector  options,  the help output currently has no indication as to how many elements a vector-value
       should have.

@PACKAGEVERSION@                                   10 Jul 2008                                      scanimage(1)