NAME

       sane-hp5400 - SANE backend for Hewlett-Packard 54XX scanners

DESCRIPTION

       The  sane-hp5400  library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the
       following Hewlett-Packard USB flatbed scanners:

              ScanJet 5400C
              ScanJet 5470C
              ScanJet 5490C

       More details can be found on the hp5400 backend homepage http://hp5400backend.sourceforge.net/.

       This is ALPHA software. Keep your hand at the scanner's plug and unplug it, if the head bumps at the  end
       of the scan area. See also the BUGS section.

       If  you  own  a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, please let us 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(1) or syslog) to us. Even if the scanner's name is only slightly
       different from the models mentioned above, please let us know.

CONFIGURATION

       The contents of the hp5400.conf file is a list of usb  lines  containing  vendor  and  product  ids  that
       correspond  to USB scanners. The file can also contain the names of device files that correspond to an HP
       54XX scanner.  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 hp5400.conf.
       "vendor_id" and "product_id" are hexadecimal numbers that identify the scanner. If autodetection does not
       work, add the device name of your scanner to the configuration file, e.g.  /dev/usb/scanner0.

FILES

       /etc/sane.d/hp5400.conf
              The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hp5400.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hp5400.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.  On *NIX systems, 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 directories are searched after the explicitly specified directories.  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_HP5400
              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.

              Example: export SANE_DEBUG_HP5400=4

SEE ALSO

       sane(7), sane-usb(5), sane-find-scanner(1),
       http://hp5400backend.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       Martijn  van  Oosterhout  <kleptog@svana.org>, Thomas Soumarmon <soumarmt@nerim.net>.  Manpage by Henning
       Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>.

BUGS

       Scanning is only tested with Linux/ix86/gcc. Be careful when  testing  on  other  operating  systems  and
       especially on big-endian platforms. The scanner may get wrong data.

                                                   13 Jul 2008                                    sane-hp5400(5)