| Linux / Unix Command: sane-abaton |
NAME
sane-abaton - SANE backend for Abaton flatbed scannersDESCRIPTION
The sane-abaton library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to Abaton flatbed scanners. At present, only the Scan 300/GS (8bit, 256 levels of gray) is fully supported, due to the absence of programming information. The Scan 300/S (black and white) is recognized, but support for it is untested.If you own a Abaton scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, or if you own an Abaton scanner that does not work with this backend, please contact sane-devel@mostang.com with the model number, so that arrangements can be made to include support for it. Have a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html concerning subscription to sane-devel.
Abaton is out of business, and these scanners are not supported by Everex (the parent company of Abaton), nor is there any programming information to be found. This driver is therefore based on information obtained by running Abaton's scanning desk accessory under MacsBug and tracing the MacOS SCSI Manager calls it made during image acquisition.
However, the protocol is very similar to, though not compatible with, the one used by the Apple scanners, therefore, if this backend is ever extended to support the other Abaton models (they also made a color flatbed scanner), it may be possible to fill in some "missing pieces" from the (quite detailed) Apple scanner documentation.
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
- special
Where special is the path-name for the special device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI scanners, the special device name must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device. Under Linux, such a device name takes a format such as /dev/sga or /dev/sg0, for example. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the abaton.conf file is a list of device names that correspond to Abaton scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. See sane-scsi(5) on details of what constitutes a valid device name.SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-scsi(5), scanimage(1)Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.
