sane-ibm(5)

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

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

9       The  sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) back‐
10       end that provides access to the IBM 2456 and the Ricoh IS-410,  IS-420,
11       and  IS-430  flatbed  scanners.  Support  for  the IS-410 and IS-430 is
12       untested. Please contact the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing  list
13       if you own such a scanner.
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15       This  backend  is  alpha-quality.  It  may  have bugs and some scanners
16       haven't been tested at all. Be careful and pull the plug if the scanner
17       causes unusual noise.
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DEVICE NAMES

21       This backend expects device names of the form:
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25       Where  special is the path-name for the special device that corresponds
26       to a SCSI scanner. The program sane-find-scanner(1) helps to  find  out
27       the  correct  device. Under Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sg0
28       or /dev/sga, for example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.
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CONFIGURATION

32       The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that corre‐
33       spond  to  SCSI  scanners.   Empty lines and lines starting with a hash
34       mark (#) are ignored.  See sane-scsi(5) on details of what  constitutes
35       a valid device name.
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FILES

39       /etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
40              The   backend   configuration  file  (see  also  description  of
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43       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ibm.a
44              The static library implementing this backend.
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46       /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ibm.so
47              The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
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ENVIRONMENT

51       SANE_CONFIG_DIR
52              This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
53              may contain the configuration file.  On *NIX systems, the direc‐
54              tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep‐
55              arated by a semi-colon (`;').  If this variable is not set,  the
56              configuration  file  is  searched  in  two  default directories:
57              first,  the  current  working  directory  (".")  and   then   in
58              /etc/sane.d.  If the value of the environment variable ends with
59              the directory separator character, then the default  directories
60              are  searched  after  the explicitly specified directories.  For
61              example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would  result
62              in directories tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in
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66              If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en‐
67              vironment  variable  controls  the debug level for this backend.
68              Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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AUTHOR

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