NAME

       sane-snapscan - SANE backend for AGFA SnapScan flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION

       The  sane-snapscan  library  implements  a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to
       AGFA SnapScan flatbed scanners. At present, the following scanners are supported from this backend:  AGFA
       SnapScan  300,  310,  600, and 1236s, 1236u, 1212u, e20, e25, e40, e50, e60, Vuego 310s, Acer 300f, 310s,
       610s, 610plus, Prisa 620s, Prisa 620u, Prisa 620ut, Prisa 640u, Prisa  640bu,  Prisa  1240,  Prisa  3300,
       Prisa 4300, Prisa 5300 and Guillemot Maxi Scan A4 Deluxe (SCSI) (with varying success).

DEVICE NAMES

       This backend expects device names of the form:

              special

       Where  special  is  the  path-name  for  the  special device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI
       scanners, the special device name must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to  such  a  device.   Under
       Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.

       For   USB   scanners   the   devicename  must  contain  the  keyword  "usb",  as  in  /dev/usbscanner  or
       /dev/usb/scanner0.  For scanners that need a firmware upload before scanning add  a  line  starting  with
       "firmware" followed by the fully qualified path to your firmware file, e.g.

              firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/firmware.bin

       For further details read http://snapscan.sourceforge.net.

CONFIGURATION

       The  contents  of  the snapscan.conf file is a list of device names that correspond to SnapScan 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

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

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

       /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-snapscan.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_SNAPSCAN
              If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this  environment  variable  controls  the
              debug  level  for  this  backend.   E.g.,  a value of 255 requests all debug output to be printed.
              Smaller levels reduce verbosity.

BUGS

       Man page doesn't provide much information yet.

SEE ALSO

       sane(7), sane-scsi(5),
       http://sourceforge.net/projects/snapscan/ (new development website)

AUTHOR

       Kevin Charter, Franck Schneider, Michel Roelofs, Emmanuel Blot, Mikko Tyolajarvi,  David  Mosberger-Tang,
       Wolfgang Goeller, Petter Reinholdtsen, Gary Plewa, Sebastien Sable, Oliver Schwartz and Mikael Magnusson.
       Man page by Henning Meier-Geinitz (mostly based on the web pages and source code).

                                                   14 Jul 2008                                  sane-snapscan(5)