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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‐
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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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21 This backend expects device names of the form:
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27 the correct device. Under Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sg0
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32 The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that corre‐
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43 /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ibm.a
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58 /etc/sane.d. If the value of the environment variable ends with
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77 Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
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81 13 Jul 2008 sane-ibm(5)