NAME¶
sane-hp4200 - SANE backend for Hewlett-Packard 4200 scanners
DESCRIPTION¶
The
sane-hp4200 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
backend that provides access to the following Hewlett-Packard USB flatbed
scanners:
ScanJet 4200 C
ScanJet 4200 Cxi
ScanJet 4200 Cse
More details can be found on the hp4200 backend homepage
http://hp4200-backend.sourceforge.net/.
This is BETA software. Keep your hand at the scanner's plug and unplug it, if
the head bumps at the end of the scan area.
If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this
backend, please let us know this by sending the scanner's exact model name and
the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from
/proc/bus/usb/devices,
sane-find-scanner or syslog) to us. Even if the scanner's name is only
slightly different from the models mentioned above, please let us know.
CONFIGURATION¶
The contents of the
hp4200.conf file is a list of usb lines containing
vendor and product ids that correspond to USB scanners. The file can also
contain the names of device files that correspond to an HP 4200 scanner. Empty
lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. The scanners are
autodetected by
usb vendor_id product_id statements which are already
included into
hp4200.conf. "vendor_id" and
"product_id" are hexadecimal numbers that identify the scanner. If
autodetection does not work, add the device name of your scanner to the
configuration file, e.g.
/dev/usb/scanner0.
FILES¶
- /etc/sane.d/hp4200.conf
- The backend configuration file (see also description of
SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
- /usr/lib/arch_triplet/sane/libsane-hp4200.a
- The static library implementing this backend.
- /usr/lib/arch_triplet/sane/libsane-hp4200.so
- The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that
support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT¶
- SANE_CONFIG_DIR
- This environment variable specifies the list of directories that may
contain the configuration file. Under UNIX, the directories are separated
by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a semi-colon (`;'). If
this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two
default directories: first, the current working directory (".")
and then in /etc/sane.d. If the value of the environment variable ends
with the directory separator character, then the default directories are
searched after the explicitly specified directories. For example, setting
SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in
directories "tmp/config", ".", and
"/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).
- SANE_DEBUG_HP4200
- If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment
variable controls the debug level for this backend. Higher debug levels
increase the verbosity of the output.
Example: export SANE_DEBUG_HP4200=4
SEE ALSO¶
sane(7),
sane-usb(5),
http://hp4200-backend.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR¶
Adrian Perez Jorge, Andrew John Lewis, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, Frank Zago,
Henning Meier-Geinitz. Current maintainer: Henning Meier-Geinitz
<henning@meier-geinitz.de>.
BUGS¶
Tested only with Linux.
Only 8 bit color mode works.
Scanning is slow due to backtracking.
Send bug reports to the sane-devel mailing list:
sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.