sane-genesys(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-genesys(5)
NAME
sane-genesys - SANE backend for GL646, GL841, GL843, GL847 and GL124
based USB flatbed scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-genesys library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
backend that provides access to USB flatbed scanners based on the
Genesys GL646, GL841, GL843, GL847 and GL124 chips. At present, the
following scanners are known to work with this backend:
Canon LiDE 35/40/50/60/100/110/120/200/210/220/700
Hewlett-Packard HP2300C/HP2400/HP3670/HP3690/G4010/G4050
Medion MD5345/MD6228/MD6274
Panasonic KV-SS080
Plustek OpticBook 3600
Pentax DSmobile 600
Syscan/Ambir DocketPORT 467/485/487/665/685
Visioneer OneTouch 7100/Strobe XP100 (rev3)/XP200/XP300/Roadwar-
rior
Xerox Travel Scanner 100, OneTouch 2400
This is stable software for supported models. But if you test new or
untested scanners, 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 me 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 the sane-devel
mailing list. Even if the scanner's name is only slightly different from
the models mentioned above, please let me know.
If you own a scanner that isn't detected by the genesys backend but has
a GL646, GL841, GL843, GL847 or GL124 chipset, you can try to add it to
the backend.
CALIBRATION
To give correct image quality, sheet fed scanners need to be calibrated
using the calibration sheet sold with the scanner. To do calibration,
you must insert this target in the feeder then start calibration either
by passing the --calibrate option to scanimage(1) or by clicking on the
available 'calibrate' button in the 'advanced options' in a graphical
frontend. The result of the calibration is stored in a file in the home
directory of the user doing it. If you plug the scanner in another ma-
chine or use it with another account, calibration will have to be re-
done, unless you use the --calibration-file option. If no home direc-
tory is defined, USERAPPPROFILE will be used, then TMPDIR or TMP. If
none of these directories exist, the backend will try to write in the
current working directory. Flatbed scanners also make use of the cali-
bration file as a cache to avoid calibration before each scan. Calibra-
tion file name is the name of the scanner model if only one scanner is
detected. In the case of several identical model, the file name will be
the name of the logical USB device name. The expiration time manages the
time a calibration is valid in cache. A value of -1 means forever, 0
means no cache.
EXTRAS SCAN OPTIONS
--lamp-off-time number
The lamp will be turned off after the given time (in minutes). A
value of 0 means that the lamp won't be turned off.
--threshold percent
0..100% (in steps of 1). Select minimum brightness to get a white
point. Pixels with brightness below that value will be scanned as
black.
--brightness value
-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the brightness enhancement. 0 for
no enhancement, negative values to decrease brightness, and posi-
tive values to increase it.
--contrast value
-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the contrast enhancement. 0 for no
enhancement, negative values to decrease contrast, and positive
values to increase it.
--disable-interpolation yes|no
When using high resolutions where the horizontal resolution is
smaller than vertical resolution, data is expanded by software to
preserve picture geometry. This can be disabled by this option to
get real scanned data.
--disable-dynamic-lineart yes|no
Disable use of a software adaptive algorithm to generate lineart
and rely on hardware lineart.
--color-filter None|Red|Green|Blue
When using gray or lineart this option selects the used color.
Using a color filter will give a monochrome scan. CIS based scan-
ners can do true gray when no filter (None value) is selected.
--lamp-off-scan
The lamp will be turned off during the scan. Calibration is still
done with lamp on.
--clear-calibration
Clear calibration cache data, triggering a new calibration for
the device when the next scan will happen.
--calibration-file
Specify the calibration file name to use. At least the directory
containing the file must exist, since it won't be created. This
option is disabled if the backend is run as root. It maybe used
in case of sheet-fed scanners to share a calibration file for
several users.
--expiration-time
Specify the time (in minutes) a cached calibration is considered
valid. If older than the given value, a new calibration is done.
A value of -1 means no expiration and cached value are kept for-
ever unless cleared by user with the calibration clear option. A
value of 0 means cache is disabled.
Additionally, several 'software' options are exposed by the backend.
These are reimplementations of features provided natively by larger
scanners, but running on the host computer. This enables smaller ma-
chines to have similar capabilities. Please note that these features are
somewhat simplistic, and may not perform as well as the native implemen-
tations. Note also that these features all require that the driver cache
the entire image in memory. This will almost certainly result in a re-
duction of scanning speed.
--swcrop
Requests the driver to detect the extremities of the paper within
the larger image, and crop the empty edges.
--swdeskew
Requests the driver to detect the rotation of the paper within
the larger image, and counter the rotation.
--swdespeck --despeck X
Requests the driver to find and remove dots of X diameter or
smaller from the image, and fill the space with the average sur-
rounding color.
--swskip 0..100% (in steps of 1) [0]
Request driver to discard pages with low numbers of dark pixels.
--swderotate[=(yes|no)] [no]
Request driver to detect and correct 90 degree image rotation.
SYSTEM ISSUES
This backend needs libusb-0.1.6 or later installed, and hasn't tested in
other configuration than a linux kernel 2.6.9 or higher. However, it
should work any system with libusb where the SANE package can be com-
piled. For setting permissions and general USB information look at
sane-usb(5).
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the genesys.conf file is a list of usb lines containing
vendor and product ids that correspond to USB scanners. The file can
also contain option lines. 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 genesys.conf.
"vendor_id" and "product_id" are hexadecimal numbers that identify the
scanner.
FILES
/etc/sane.d/genesys.conf
The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-genesys.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-genesys.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_GENESYS
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
vironment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output. If the
debug level is set to 1 or higher, some debug options become
available that are normally hidden. Handle them with care. This
will print messages related to core genesys functions.
SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_IMAGE
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
vironment variable enables logging of intermediate image data. To
enable this mode, set the environmental variable to 1.
Example (full and highly verbose output for gl646):
export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255
CREDITS
Jack McGill for donating several sheetfed and flatbed scanners, which
made possible to add support for them in the genesys backend:
Hewlett-Packard HP3670
Visioneer Strobe XP100 (rev3)/XP200/XP300/Roadwarrior
Canon LiDE 200
Pentax DSmobile 600
Syscan/Ambir DocketPORT 467/485/487/665/685
Xerox Travel Scanner 100, Onetouch 2400
cncsolutions sponsored and supported the work on the Panasonic KV-SS080.
Brian Paavo from Benthic Science Limited for donating a Canoscan LiDE
700F.
Dany Qumsiyeh for donating a Canoscan LiDE 210 and a LiDE 220.
Luc Verhaegen for donating a Canoscan LiDE 120.
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-usb(5)
AUTHOR
Oliver Rauch
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>
Stéphane Voltz <stef.dev@free.fr>
Philipp Schmid <philipp8288@web.de>
Pierre Willenbrock <pierre@pirsoft.dnsalias.org>
Alexey Osipov <simba@lerlan.ru> for HP2400 final support
LIMITATIONS
Powersaving isn't implemented for gl646 based scanner. Dynamic (emulated
from gray data and with dithering) isn't enabled for gl646 scanners.
Hardware lineart is limited up to 600 dpi for gl847 based scanners, due
to the way image sensors are built.
This backend will be much slower if not using libusb-1.0. So be sure
that sane-backends is built with the --enable-libusb_1_0 option.
BUGS
For the LiDE 200, the scanned data at 4800 dpi is obtained "as is" from
sensor. It seems the windows driver does some digital processing to im-
prove it, which is not implemented in the backend.
4 Jul 2012 sane-genesys(5)
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