1sane-avision(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-avision(5)
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6 sane-avision - SANE backend for Avision branded and Avision OEM (HP,
7 Minolta, Mitsubishi, UMAX and possibly more) flatbed and film scanners.
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11 The sane-avision library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
12 backend that provides access to various Avision scanners and the Avi‐
13 sion OEM scanners labelled by HP, Minolta, Mitsubishi or Fujitsu.
14 It is fully big-endian aware and in everyday use on PowerPC and SPARC
16 systems.
17 I suggest you hold one hand on the power-button of the scanner while
19 you try the first scans - especially with film-scanners!
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23 The configuration file for this backend resides in /etc/sane.d/avi‐
24 sion.conf.
25 Its contents is a list of device names that correspond to Avision and
27 Avision compatible scanners and backend-options. Empty lines and lines
28 starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file
29 is shown below:
30 # this is a comment
32 option force-a4
33 option force-a3
34 option skip-adf
35 option disable-gamma-table
36 option disable-calibration
37 #scsi Vendor Model Type Bus Channel ID LUN
38 scsi AVISION
39 scsi HP
40 scsi /dev/scanner
41 usb 0x03f0 0x0701
42 force-a4:
45 Forces the backend to overwrite the scanable area returned by
46 the scanner to ISO A4. Scanner that are known to return bogus
47 data are marked in the backend so if you need this option please
48 report this to the backend maintainer. USE WITH CARE!
49 force-a3:
51 Forces the backend to overwrite the scanable area returned by
52 the scanner to ISO A3. Scanner that are known to return bogus
53 data are marked in the backend so if you need this option please
54 report this to the backend maintainer. USE WITH CARE!
55 skip-adf:
57 Forces the backend to ignore an inconsistent ADF status returned
58 by the scanner (ADF not present, but ADF model number non-zero).
59 Without this option, the backend will make several attempts to
60 reset the ADF and retry the query in this situation, and will
61 fail with a "not supported" error if the ADF still doesn't re‐
62 spond.
63 disable-gamma-table:
65 Disables the usage of the scanner's gamma-table. You might try
66 this if your scans hang or only produce random garbage.
67 disable-calibration:
69 Disables the scanner's color calibration. You might try this if
70 your scans hang or only produce random garbage.
71 Note: Any option above modifies the default code-flow for your scan‐
73 ner. The options should only be used when you encounter problems
74 with the default behavior of the backend. Please report the need
75 of options to the backend-author so the backend can be fixed as
76 soon as possible.
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80 This backend expects device names of the form:
81 scsi scsi-spec
83 usb usb-spec
85 Where scsi-spec is the path-name to a special device or a device ID for
87 the device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The special device name
88 must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device, for exam‐
89 ple on Linux /dev/sga or /dev/sg0. The device ID is the ID returned by
90 the scanner, for example "HP" or "AVISION". See sane-scsi(5) for de‐
91 tails.
92 Note: Since the backend now includes native USB access, it is no
94 longer needed - even considered obsolete - to access USB scanner
95 via the SCSI emulation (named hpusbscsi on Linux) for Avision
96 USB devices such as the HP 53xx, HP 74xx or Minolta film-scan‐
97 ners.
98 usb-spec is the USB device name, the vendor/product ID pair or the name
100 used by libusb corresponding to the USB scanner. For example "0x03f0
101 0x0701" or "libusb:002:003". See sane-usb(5) for details.
102 The program sane-find-scanner(1) helps to find out the correct scsi or
104 usb device name.
105 A list with supported devices is built into the avision backend so nor‐
107 mally specifying an ID should not be necessary.
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111 /etc/sane.d/avision.conf
112 The backend configuration file (see also description of
113 SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
114 /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-avision.a
116 The static library implementing this backend.
117 /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-avision.so
119 The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
120 that support dynamic loading).
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124 SANE_CONFIG_DIR
125 This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
126 may contain the configuration file. On *NIX systems, the direc‐
127 tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep‐
128 arated by a semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the
129 configuration file is searched in two default directories:
130 first, the current working directory (".") and then in
131 /etc/sane.d. If the value of the environment variable ends with
132 the directory separator character, then the default directories
133 are searched after the explicitly specified directories. For
134 example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result
135 in directories tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in
136 this order).
137 SANE_DEBUG_AVISION
139 If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en‐
140 vironment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
141 Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output. The
142 debug level 7 is the author's preferred value to debug backend
143 problems.
144 Example: export SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7
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149 sane(7), sane-scsi(5), sane-usb(5)
150 http://exactcode.com/site/open_source/saneavision
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154 René Rebe
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158 René Rebe and Meino Christian Cramer
159 11 Jul 2008 sane-avision(5)