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6 sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners
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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
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26 responds to a SCSI scanner. The program sane-find-scanner(1) helps to
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32 The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that corre‐
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56 uration file is searched in two default directories: first, the
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76 Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
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