NAME

       sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION

       The  sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the IBM
       2456 and the Ricoh IS-410, IS-420, and IS-430 flatbed scanners. Support for  the  IS-410  and  IS-430  is
       untested. Please contact the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing list if you own such a scanner.

       This  backend is alpha-quality. It may have bugs and some scanners haven't been tested at all. Be careful
       and pull the plug if the scanner causes unusual noise.

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.  The
       program  sane-find-scanner helps to find out the correct device. Under Linux, such a device name could be
       /dev/sg0 or /dev/sga, for example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.

CONFIGURATION

       The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that  correspond  to  SCSI  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

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

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

       @LIBDIR@/libsane-ibm.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_IBM
              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.

SEE ALSO

       sane(7), sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),

AUTHOR

       mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
       Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>

@PACKAGEVERSION@                                   13 Jul 2008                                       sane-ibm(5)