sane-artec(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-artec(5)
NAME
sane-artec - SANE backend for Artec flatbed scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-artec library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) back-
end that provides access to Artec/Ultima SCSI flatbed scanners. At
present, the following scanners are known to work at least partially
with this backend:
* Artec A6000C
* Artec A6000C PLUS
* Artec ViewStation AT3
* BlackWidow BW4800SP (rebadged Artec AT3)
* Artec ViewStation AT6
* Artec ViewStation AT12
* Artec AM12S
* Plustek 19200S (rebadged Artec AM12S)
Although this manual page is generally updated with each release, up-to-
date information on new releases and extraneous helpful hints are avail-
able from the backend homepage: http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the artec.conf file are a list of device names that cor-
respond to Artec 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.
Sample file:
# artec.conf
#
# this is a comment.
#
# this line says search for any SCSI devices which are scanners and have
# a vendor string of 'ULTIMA'
scsi ULTIMA
#
# the next line forces the backend to assume the next scanner found has
# the specified vendor string (useful for testing rebadged models).
vendor ULTIMA
#
# the next line forces the backend to assume the next scanner found has
# the specified model string (useful for testing rebadged models).
model AT3
#
# now a line that actually specifies a device. The backend is going to
# assume this is an Artec/Ultima AT3 because we forced the vendor and
# model above.
/dev/scanner
#
# once we hit a scanner device line, the forced vendor and model
# string are
# 'forgotten', so the vendor and model for this next device will be
# determined from the result of a SCSI inquiry.
/dev/sge
#
SCSI ADAPTER TIPS
Some Artec scanners come with an included SCSI adapter. If your scanner
came with a DTC ISA SCSI cards, you can probably use it with recent (>=
2.2.0) kernels using the generic NCR5380 support. You must pass the
following boot argument to the kernel: "dtc3181e=0x2c0,0"
I do not have any information on the PCI SCSI adapter included with some
newer Artec scanners.
FILES
/etc/sane.d/artec.conf
The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-artec.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-artec.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. On *NIX systems, the direc-
tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sepa-
rated 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_ARTEC
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
vironment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed.
Smaller levels reduce verbosity: SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC values:
Number Remark
0 print important errors
1 print errors
2 print sense
3 print warnings
4 print scanner-inquiry
5 print information
6 print less important information
7 print major called procedures
8 print all called procedures
9 print procedure info/data messages
10 print called sane-init-routines
11 print called sane-procedures
12 print sane infos
13 print sane option-control messages
50 print verbose data/debug messages
== 100 print software RGB calibration data
== 101 print raw data from scanner to artec.data.raw file
== 128 print out all messages
Example: export SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC=13
BUGS
Known bugs in this release: A6000C+ users with firmware v1.92 or earlier
have problems with the backend, the cause has not been determined.
Sometimes the backend is not particularly robust, you can possibly lock
up the SCSI bus (and/or machine) by not having patience enough when
scanning. 3-channel gamma correction is not implemented and single-
channel gamma correction is not totally working on models other than the
AT3.
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-scsi(5)
AUTHOR
Chris Pinkham <cpinkham@corp.infi.net>
11 Jul 2008 sane-artec(5)
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