sane-plustek

NAME

sane-plustek - SANE backend for LM983[1/2/3] based USB flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION

The sane-plustek library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to USB flatbed scanners based on National Semiconductor Merlin chipsets (LM9831, 9832 and 9833). If you're looking for parallel-port support for Plustek scanner please refer to the sane-plustek_pp backend.

SUPPORTED DEVICES

The Backend is able to support USB scanner based on the National Semiconductor chipsets LM9831, LM9832 and LM9833. The following tables show various devices which are currently reported to work. If your Plustek scanner has another Product ID, then the device is NOT supported by this backend.

Vendor Plustek - ID: 0x07B3
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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OpticPro U12 LM9831 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0010
OpticPro UT12 LM9831 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0013
OpticPro UT12 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0017
OpticPro UT16 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0017
OpticPro U24 LM9831 1200x2400dpi 42bit 2Mb 0x0011
OpticPro U24 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 2Mb 0x0015
OpticPro UT24 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 2Mb 0x0017

Vendor KYE/Genius - ID: 0x0458
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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Colorpage HR6 V2 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2007
Colorpage HR6 V2 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2008
Colorpage HR6A LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2009
Colorpage HR7 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2013
Colorpage HR7LE LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2015
Colorpage HR6X LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2016

Vendor Hewlett-Packard - ID: 0x03F0
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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ScanJet 2100C LM9831 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0505
ScanJet 2200C LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0605

Vendor Mustek - ID: 0x0400
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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BearPaw 1200 LM9831 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x1000
BearPaw 1200 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x1001*
BearPaw 2400 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 2Mb 0x1001
* see also description for model override switch below!

Vendor UMAX - ID: 0x1606
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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UMAX 3400/3450 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0060
UMAX 5400 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x0160

Vendor COMPAQ - ID: 0x049F
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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S4-100 LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x001A

Vendor Epson - ID: 0x04B8
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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Perfection 1250 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x010F
Perfection 1260 LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x011D

Vendor CANON - ID: 0x04A9
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USB Model: ASIC: Properties: Prod-ID
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CanoScan N650/656U LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2206
CanoScan N1220U LM9832 1200x2400dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2207
CanoScan D660U LM9832 600x1200dpi 42bit 512Kb 0x2208
CanoScan N670/676U LM9833 600x1200dpi 48bit 512Kb 0x220D
CanoScan N1240U LM9833 1200x2400dpi 48bit 512Kb 0x220E
CanoScan LIDE20 LM9833 600x1200dpi 48bit 512Kb 0x220D
CanoScan LIDE30 LM9833 1200x2400dpi 48bit 512Kb 0x220E

OTHER PLUSTEK SCANNERS

For parallelport device support see the plustek_pp backend.
The SCSI scanner OpticPro 19200S is a rebadged Artec AM12S scanner and is supported by the Artec backend.
Only the National Semiconductor LM983[1/2/] based devices of Plustek are supported by this backend. Older versions of the U12, the UT12, the U1212 and U1248 (GrandTech chipset) are not supported.

Model Chipset backend
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U1248 GrandTech gt68xx
UT16B GrandTech gt68xx
U12 P98003 u12
UT12 P98003 u12
1212U P98003 u21
For a more complete and up to date list see: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

CONFIGURATION

To use your scanner with this backend, you need at least two entries in the configuration file
/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf

[usb] vendor-id product-id
device /dev/usbscanner

[usb] tells the backend, that the following devicename (here /dev/usbscanner ) has to be interpreted as USB scanner device. If vendor- and product-id has not been specified, the backend tries to detect this by its own. If device ist set to auto
then the next matching device is used.

The Options:

option warmup t

: t specifies the warmup period in seconds

option lampOff t

: t is the time in seconds for switching off the lamps in standby mode

option lOffonEnd b

: b specifies the behaviour when closing the backend, 1 --> switch lamps off, 0 --> do not change lamp status

option mov m

: m is the model override switch. It works only with Mustek BearPaw devices.

m/PID | 0x1000 | 0x1001
------+--------------+--------------

0 | BearPaw 1200 | BearPaw 2400

1 | no function | BearPaw 1200

option invertNegatives b

: b 0 --> do not invert the picture during negativ scans, 1 --> invert picture

option cacheCalData b

: b 0 --> do not save coarse calibration results, 1 --> save results of coarse calibration in ~/.sane/ directory

option altCalibration b

: b 0 --> use standard calibration routines, 1 --> use alternate calibration (only non Plustek

devices, standard for CIS devices)

option skipFine b

: b 0 --> perform fine calibration, 1 --> skip fine calibration (only non Plustek devices)

option skipFineWhite b

: b 0 --> perform white fine calibration, 1 --> skip white fine calibration (only non Plustek devices)

option skipCalibration b

: b 0 --> perform calibration, 1 --> skip calibration (only non Plustek devices)

option enableTPA b

: b 0 --> default behaviour, specified by the internal tables, 1 --> override internal tables and allow TPA mode (EPSON only)

option posOffX x
option posOffY y
option tpaOffX x
option tpaOffY y
option negOffX x
option negOffY y

: x y By using this settings, the user can adjust the given image positions. Please note, that there's no internal range checking for this feature.

option posShadingY p
option tpaShadingY p
option negShadingY p

: p overrides the internal shading position. The values are in steps. Please note, that there's no internal range checking for this feature.

option redGamma r
option greenGamma g
option blueGamma b
option grayGamma gr

: r g b gr

By using these values, the internal linear gamma table (r,g,b,gr = 1.0) can be adjusted.

option red_gain r
option green_gain g
option blue_gain b

: r g b These values can be used to adjust the internally detected gain values of the AFE for each channel. The range is between 0 and 63.

See the plustek.conf file for examples.

Note:
You have to make sure, that the USB subsystem is loaded correctly and you have access to the device-node. For more details see sane-usb (5) manpage. You might use sane-find-scanner to check that you have access to your device.

Note:
If there's no configuration file, the backend defaults to device auto

FILES

/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf: The backend configuration file
/usr/lib*/sane/libsane-plustek.a: The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib*/sane/libsane-plustek.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. Under UNIX, the directories are separated by a colon (`:'), 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 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_PLUSTEK

If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.

Example: export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=10

CONTACT AND BUG-REPORTS

Please send any information and bug-reports to:
Plustek Driver Mailing List <plustek@linuxhacker.org>
or directly to:
Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>

Additional info and hints can be obtained from our
Mailing-List archive at:
http://www.linuxhacker.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/3

or directly from the projects' homepage at:
http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html

To obtain debug messages from the backend, please set the environment-variable SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK before calling your favorite scan-frontend (i.e. xscanimage).
i.e.: export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; xscanimage

The value controls the verbosity of the backend. Please note, that values greater than 19 force the backend to output raw data files, which could be rather large. The ending of these files is ".raw". For problem reports it should be enough the set the verbosity to 13.

KNOWN BUGS & RESTRICTIONS

* The driver does not support these manic scalings up

  to 16 times the physical resolution. The only scaling

  is done on resolutions between the physical resolution

  of the CDD-sensor and the stepper motor i.e. you have a

  600x1200 dpi scanner and you are scanning using 800dpi,

  so scaling is necesary, because the sensor only delivers

  600dpi but the motor is capable to perform 1200dpi steps.
* Plusteks' model policy is somewhat inconsistent. This

  means, they sell technical different devices under the

  same product name. Therefore it is possible that some

  devices like the UT12 or U12 won't work - please check

  the model list above and compare the product-id to

  the one your device has.
* Negative/Slide scanning quality is poor.