| Linux / Unix Command: sane-apple |
NAME
sane-apple - SANE backend for Apple flatbed scannersDESCRIPTION
The sane-apple library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to Apple flatbed scanners. At present, the following scanners are supported from this backend:
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AppleScanner 4bit 16 Shades of Gray
OneScanner 8bit 256 Shades of Gray
ColorOneScanner 24bit RGB color 3-pass
If you own a Apple scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, please let us know by sending the scanner's model name, SCSI id, and firmware revision to sane-devel@mostang.com. See http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html for details on how to subscribe to sane-devel.
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
- special
Where special is either 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 could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the apple.conf file is a list of options and device names that correspond to Apple 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.Options come in two flavors: global and positional ones. Global options apply to all devices managed by the backend whereas positional options apply just to the most recently mentioned device. Note that this means that the order in which the options appear matters!
SCSI ADAPTER TIPS
SCSI scanners are typically delivered with an ISA SCSI adapter. Unfortunately, that adapter is not worth much since it is not interrupt driven. It is (sometimes) possible to get the supplied card to work, but without interrupt line, scanning will put so much load on the system, that it becomes almost unusable for other tasks.SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-scsi(5)Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.
