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SANE Scanner Access Now Easy                         sane-hs2p(5)



NAME
     sane-hs2p - SANE backend for Ricoh SCSI flatbed/ADF scanners

DESCRIPTION
     The sane-hs2p library implements a SANE (Scanner Access  Now
     Easy) backend that provides access to the Ricoh IS450 family
     of scanners. Should also work with  the  IS420,  IS410,  and
     IS430  scanners, but these are untested.  Please contact the
     maintainer or the sane-devel mailing list if you own such  a
     scanner.

     This backend is alpha-quality. It may  have  bugs  and  some
     scanners haven't been tested at all. Be careful and pull the
     plug if the scanner causes unusual noise.


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. The program sane-find-
     scanner helps to find out the correct device.  Under  Linux,
     such  a device name could be /dev/sg0 or /dev/sga, for exam-
     ple.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.


CONFIGURATION
     The contents of the hs2p.conf file is a list of device names
     that  correspond  to  SCSI  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.


FILES
     /etc/sane.d/hs2p.conf
          The backend configuration file (see also description of
          SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

     /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hs2p.a
          The static library implementing this backend.

     /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hs2p.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  direc-
          tories  that may contain the configuration file.  Under
          UNIX, the directories are separated by a  colon  (`:'),



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          under  OS/2,  they are separated 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  direc-
          tories  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_HS2P
          If the library was compiled with debug support enabled,
          this  environment variable controls the debug level for
          this backend.  A value of 255 prints all debug  output.
          Smaller values reduce verbosity.


CURRENT STATUS
     The  hs2p  backend  is  now  in  version  1.00.  All   major
     scanning-related  features  are  supported, except for those
     features requiring  the  optional  IPU.  Scanning  from  the
     flatbed  or  ADF  (either  simplex  or duplex) is supported.
     Lineart, halftone, 4-bit gray, and 8-bit gray are supported.
     Pre-set gamma tables and halftone patterns are supported, as
     well as brightness, threshold, contrast.  Also supported  is
     scan  wait  mode,  binary and gray filtering, negative scan-
     ning, and absolute or relative white setting. Printing  with
     the optional endorser also is supported.


PLANNED FUNCTIONALITY
     This scanner can scan from the  ADF  in  continuous  simplex
     mode.  Surprisingly,  many  scanners scan an entire document
     from the ADF into memory before ejecting the sheet. Thus  if
     the document is too long, the scanner cannot hold the entire
     image data in memory. But if  the  scanner  would  send  its
     image  data when its memory got full, and then read the next
     buffer's  worth  of  data,  continuous  scanning  could   be
     achieved.


MISSING FUNCTIONALITY
     The SCSI commands for uploading (2AH) or  downloading  (28H)
     custom  halftone  patterns  (02H)  and  gamma  vectors (03H)
     should work, but require implementing the SANE  Option-Value
     code  to  allow the user to create the tables to be uploaded
     to the scanner. No support for  Maintenance  Data  (80H)  is
     planned  as  this  functionality  is more suited to a stand-
     alone utility to be used by a technician when replacing  the
     lamp or ADF unit. Nor is support for reading or changing IPU



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     (93H) paramters and  adjustments  planned,  since  my  IS450
     lacks  such a unit. The 31-byte Auto Photo/Letter struct and
     21-byte Dynamic  threshold  struct  are  documented  in  the
     hs2p-scsi.h  file  should  someone wish to use their IPU for
     image data processing.


SEE ALSO
     sane(7), sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),


AUTHOR
     jeremy 
     Maintained by Jeremy Johnson 

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     _________________________________________________________
    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |           ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
    |____________________|____________________________________|_
    | Availability       |  image/scanner/xsane/sane-backends|
    |____________________|____________________________________|_
    | Interface Stability|  Uncommitted                      |
    |____________________|___________________________________|

NOTES
     Source for SANE is available on http://opensolaris.org.


























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