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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 path]  [-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 (compression level 75).  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

       There are two sets of options available when running scanimage.

       The  options  that  are  provided  by scanimage itself are listed below. In addition, each
       backend offers its own set of options and these can  also  be  specified.  Note  that  the
       options  available  from  the  backend  may  vary depending on the scanning device that is
       selected.

       Often options that are similar in function may be implemented differently across backends.
       An  example  of  this  difference is --mode Gray and --mode Grayscale.  This may be due to
       differing backend author preferences.  At other times, options are defined by the scanning
       device itself and therefore out of the control of the backend code.

       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).

       -d dev, --device-name=dev
              specifies the device to access and 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.

       --format=format
              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.

       -i profile, --icc-profile=profile
              is used to include an ICC profile into a TIFF file.

       -L, --list-devices
              requests  a  (partial)  list  of  devices  that are available.  The list may not be
              complete since some devices may be available, but are not  listed  in  any  of  the
              configuration files (which are typically stored in directory /etc/sane.d).  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.

       -f format, --formatted-device-list=format
              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 features for scanning documents using document feeders.

              -b [format], --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
                     option to work around them.

              --batch-increment=increment
                     sets  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.  --batch-double is a specific command provided
                     to aid this.

              --batch-double
                     will   automatically   set   the   increment   to    2.     Equivalent    to
                     --batch-increment=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.

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

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

       -o path, --output-file=path
              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.

       -n, --dont-scan
              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).

       -T, --test
              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.

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

       -h, --help
              requests  help  information.   The information is printed on standard output and no
              scan will be performed.

       -v, --verbose
              increases the verbosity of the output of scanimage.  The option  may  be  specified
              repeatedly, each time increasing the verbosity level.

       -B [size], --buffer-size=[size]
              changes  input  buffer  size  from  the  default of 32KB to size KB. If size is not
              specified then the buffer is set to 1 MB.

       -V, --version
              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. If more information about the version numbers of the backends are necessary,
              the  DEBUG  variable  for  the  dll  layer  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

       /etc/sane.d
              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.

                                           10 Jul 2008                               scanimage(1)