1xcam(1) General Commands Manual xcam(1)
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6 xcam - a graphical camera frontend for SANE
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9 xcam [--buffer|-B] [--version|-V] [--help|-h]
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13 xcam provides a graphical user-interface to control an image acquisi‐
14 tion device such as a flatbed scanner or a camera. It allows scanning
15 invidual images and can be invoked directly from the command-line.
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17 xcam acts as a stand-alone program that saves acquired images in a
18 suitable PNM format (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale
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21 xcam accesses image acquisition devices through the SANE (Scanner
22 Access Now Easy) interface. The list of available devices depends on
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25 xcam presents a menu listing of all known and available devices.
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29 If the --Buffer (-B) option is given, xcam will use a 1024 kByte input
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32 If the --version (-V) option is given, xcam will output its version
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35 The --help (-h) xcam flag prints a short summary of options.
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37 SANE_DEBUG_XCAM
38 This environment variable controls the debug level xscanimage.
39 Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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42 0 print fatal errors
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53 $HOME/.sane/xcam/devicename.rc
54 For each device, there is one rc-file that holds the saved set‐
55 tings for that particular device. Normally, this file should
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58 device settings using the "Preferences->Save as default set‐
59 tings" menubar entry.
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63 sane(7), xscanimage(1), scanimage(1), sane-dll(5) and the backend man‐
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67 David Mosberger-Tang
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69 Gerard Klaver (2005 update)
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73 11 April 2005 xcam(1)