| Linux / Unix Command: sane-pint |
NAME
sane-pint - SANE backend for scanners that use the PINT device driverDESCRIPTION
The sane-pint library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides generic access to hand-held and flatbed scanners using the PINT (PINT Is Not Twain) device driver. The PINT driver is being actively developed on the OpenBSD platform, and has been ported to a few other *nix-like operating systems.PINT is designed to provide an ioctl(2) interface to many different scanner types. However, this backend has only been tested with flatbed single-pass scanners, and more work will probably be required to get it to use other scanner types successfully.
If have successfully used the PINT driver with your scanner, but it does not work using this SANE backend, please let us know. To do this, send a mail with the relevant information for your scanner to sane-devel@mostang.com. Have a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html concerning subscription to sane-devel.
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
- special
Where special is the UNIX path-name for the special device that corresponds to the scanner. The special device name must be a PINT device or a symlink to such a device. For example, under NetBSD or OpenBSD, such a device name could be /dev/ss0 or /dev/scan0.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the pint.conf. file is a list of device names that correspond to PINT scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:
-
/dev/scanner
# this is a comment
/dev/ss1
SEE ALSO
sane(7)Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.
