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6 sane-agfafocus - SANE backend for AGFA Focus flatbed scanners
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9 The sane-agfafocus library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
10 backend that provides access to AGFA Focus flatbed scanners. At
11 present, the following scanners are supported from this backend:
12 AGFA Focus GS Scanner (6 bit gray scale) (untested)
14 AGFA Focus Lineart Scanner (lineart) (untested)
15 AGFA Focus II (8 bit gray scale) (untested)
16 AGFA Focus Color (24 bit color 3-pass)
17 AGFA Focus Color Plus (24 bit color 3-pass)
18 Siemens S9036 (8 bit gray scale) (untested)
20 The driver supports line art, 6bpp and 8bpp gray, 18bpp and 24bpp color
22 scans.
23 If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with
25 this backend, please let us know by sending the scanner's model name,
26 SCSI id, and firmware revision to sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net.
27 Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html concern‐
28 ing subscription to sane-devel.
29 All of these scanners are pre-SCSI-2, and do not even report properly
31 to SCSI Inquiry. This is typically evident in SCSI bus scans, where
32 the scanner will come up with only garbage as vendor and models
33 strings.
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37 This backend expects device names of the form:
38 special
40 Where special is either the path-name for the special device that cor‐
42 responds to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI scanners, the special device name
43 must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device. Under
44 Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example.
45 See sane-scsi(5) for details.
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49 The contents of the agfafocus.conf file is a list of device names that
50 correspond to AGFA Focus scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with
51 a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown
52 below:
53 /dev/scanner
55 # this is a comment
56 /dev/sge
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60 /etc/sane.d/agfafocus.conf
61 The backend configuration file (see also description of
62 SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
63 /usr/lib/libsane-agfafocus.a
65 The static library implementing this backend.
66 /usr/lib/libsane-agfafocus.so
68 The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
69 that support dynamic loading).
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72 SANE_CONFIG_DIR
73 This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
74 may contain the configuration file. Under UNIX, the directories
75 are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated
76 by a semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the config‐
77 uration file is searched in two default directories: first, the
78 current working directory (".") and then in /etc/sane.d. If the
79 value of the environment variable ends with the directory sepa‐
80 rator character, then the default directories are searched after
81 the explicitly specified directories. For example, setting
82 SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories
83 tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).
84 SANE_DEBUG_AGFAFOCUS
86 If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this
87 environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
88 E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed.
89 Smaller levels reduce verbosity. SANE_DEBUG_AGFAFOCUS values:
90 Number Remark
93 0 print important errors (printed each time)
94 1 print errors
95 2 print sense
96 3 print warnings
97 4 print scanner-inquiry
98 5 print information
99 6 print less important information
100 7 print called procedures
101 8 print reader_process messages
102 10 print called sane-init-routines
103 11 print called sane-procedures
104 12 print sane infos
105 13 print sane option-control messages
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109 Uploading of dither matrices and tonecurves has been implemented, but
110 so far has not proven to be useful for anything. For this reason these
111 options have been disabled.
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115 The scanners that do not support disconnect have problems with SCSI
116 timeouts if the SCSI bus gets loaded, eg. if you do a kernel build at
117 the same time as scanning. To see if your scanner supports disconnect,
118 run SANE_DEBUG_AGFAFOCUS=128 scanimage -L in a terminal and look for
119 the "disconnect:" line.
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123 If you have problems with SANE not detecting your scanner, make sure
124 the Artec backend is disabled. Somehow, this backend causes at least
125 my scanner not to respond correctly to SCSI inquiry commands.
126 If you encounter a bug please set the environment variable
128 SANE_DEBUG_AGFAFOCUS to 128 and try to regenerate the problem. Then
129 send me a report with the log attached.
130 If you encounter a SCSI bus error or trimmed and/or displaced images
132 please also set the environment variable SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI to 128
133 before sending me the report.
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137 More scanners?
138 The AGFA ACS and ARCUS scanners are similar to the FOCUS scan‐
140 ners. The driver could probably be extended to support these
141 scanners without too many changes. I do not have access to such
142 scanners, and cannot add support for it. However, if you are in
143 possession of such a scanner, I could be helpful in adding sup‐
144 port for these scanners.
145 The AGFA HORIZON scanners are SCSI-2 scanners, and it would
147 probably be easier to support these scanners in a SCSI-2 compli‐
148 ant backend.
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152 sane(7), sane-scsi(5)
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156 Ingo Schneider and Karl Anders Øygard.
157 10 Jul 2008 sane-agfafocus(5)