1sane-canon_lide70(5)     SANE Scanner Access Now Easy     sane-canon_lide70(5)
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NAME

6       sane-canon_lide70  -  SANE backend for the Canon LiDE 70 and 600(F) USB
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DESCRIPTION

10       The canon_lide70 library implements a SANE (Scanner  Access  Now  Easy)
11       backend  that  provides  access  to the Canon Inc. CanoScan LiDE 70 and
12       600(F) flatbed scanners. The film unit of the LiDE  600F  is  not  sup‐
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15       Due  to  Canon's  unwillingness  to provide scanner documentation, this
16       software was developed by analyzing the USB traffic of the  Windows  XP
17       driver. The precise meaning of the individual commands that are sent to
18       the scanner is known only to a very limited extent. Some sophistication
19       present in the Windows XP driver has been left out. There is, for exam‐
20       ple, no active calibration.
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22       Testers and reviewers are welcome. Send your bug reports  and  comments
23       to the sane-devel mailing list <sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net>.
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CONFIGURATION

26       The  /etc/sane.d/canon_lide70.conf  file  identifies the LiDE 70 by its
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BACKEND SPECIFIC OPTIONS

32       Scan Mode:
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35       --resolution 75|150|300|600|1200 [default 600]
36              Sets the resolution of the scanned image in dots per inch. Scan‐
37              ning at 1200 dpi is not available on the LiDE 600(F) and  it  is
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41       --mode Color|Gray|Lineart [default: Color]
42              Selects the scan mode. Lineart means fully black and fully white
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46       --threshold 0..100 (in steps of 1) [default 75]
47              Select minimum-brightness percentage to get a white point, rele‐
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52              This  option has not yet been implemented. Scans are captured in
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65              Width of scan-area in millimeters.
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FILES

72       /etc/sane.d/canon_lide70.conf
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75       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-canon_lide70.a
76              The static library implementing this backend.
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78       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-canon_lide70.so
79              The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
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ENVIRONMENT

83       SANE_DEBUG_CANON_LIDE70
84              If  the  library  was  compiled with debug support enabled, this
85              environment variable controls the debug level for this  backend.
86              Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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89              SANE_DEBUG_CANON_LIDE70=128 scanimage > /dev/null
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KNOWN PROBLEMS

92       At  low  resolutions  (75 and 150 dpi, implying high slider speeds) the
93       LiDE 70 misses the top one millimeter of the scan  area.  This  can  be
94       remedied  by  shifting  the  document one millimeter downward, in cases
95       where such precision matters. Note that xsane(1) uses the 75  dpi  mode
96       for prescans. The problem is worse on the LiDE 600(F), where the offset
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99       It is recommended that in xsane(1) the gamma value be set  to  approxi‐
100       mately 1.7 to get more realistic colors. This also wipes out some arti‐
101       facts caused by the lack of real calibration.
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SEE ALSO

105       sane(7), sane-usb(5), sane-find-scanner(1), scanimage(1), xsane(1),
106       http://www.juergen-ernst.de/info_sane.html
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AUTHOR

110       pimvantend, building upon pioneering work by Juergen Ernst.
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