sane-find-scanner - find SCSI and USB scanners and their device files
sane-find-scanner [
-?|
-h|
--help] [
-v]
[
-q] [
-p] [
-f] [
-F filename]
[
devname]
sane-find-scanner is a command-line tool to find SCSI and USB scanners
and determine their UNIX device files. Its primary aim is to make sure that
scanners can be detected by SANE backends.
For
SCSI scanners, it checks the default generic SCSI device files (e.g.,
/dev/sg0) and
/dev/scanner. The test is done by sending a SCSI
inquiry command and looking for a device type of "scanner" or
"processor" (some old HP scanners seem to send
"processor"). So
sane-find-scanner will find any SCSI scanner
connected to those default device files even if it isn't supported by any SANE
backend.
For
USB scanners, first the USB kernel scanner device files (e.g.
/dev/usb/scanner0,
/dev/usb/scanner, and
/dev/usbscanner)
are tested. The files are opened and the vendor and device ids are determined,
if the operating system supports this feature. Currently USB scanners are only
found this way if they are supported by the Linux scanner module or the
FreeBSD or OpenBSD uscanner driver. After that test,
sane-find-scanner
tries to scan for USB devices found by the USB library libusb (if available).
There is no special USB class for scanners, so the heuristics used to
distinguish scanners from other USB devices is not perfect.
sane-find-scanner also tries to find out the type of USB chip used in
the scanner. If detected, it will be printed after the vendor and product ids.
sane-find-scanner will even find USB scanners, that are not supported
by any SANE backend.
sane-find-scanner won't find most parallel port scanners, or scanners
connected to proprietary ports. Some
parallel port scanners may be
detected by
sane-find-scanner -p . At the time of writing this will
only detect Mustek parallel port scanners.
- -?, -h, --help
- Prints a short usage message.
- -v
- Verbose output. If used once, sane-find-scanner
shows every device name and the test result. If used twice, SCSI inquiry
information and the USB device descriptors are also printed.
- -q
- Be quiet. Print only the devices, no comments.
- -p
- Probe parallel port scanners.
- -f
- Force opening all explicitly given devices as SCSI and USB
devices. That's useful if sane-find-scanner is wrong in determining
the device type.
- -F filename
- filename is a file that contains USB descriptors in the
format of /proc/bus/usb/devices as used by Linux. sane-find-scanner
tries to identify the chipset(s) of all USB scanners found in such a file.
This option is useful for developers when the output of cat
/proc/bus/usb/devices is available but the scanner itself isn't.
- devname
- Test device file "devname". No other devices are
checked if devname is given.
sane-find-scanner -v
Check all SCSI and USB devices for available scanners and print a line for every
device file.
sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner
Look for a (SCSI) scanner only at /dev/scanner and print the result.
sane-find-scanner -p
Probe for parallel port scanners.
sane(7),
sane-scsi(5),
sane-usb(5),
scanimage(1),
xscanimage(1),
xsane(1),
sane-"backendname"(5)
Oliver Rauch, Henning Meier-Geinitz and others
USB support is limited to Linux (kernel, libusb), FreeBSD (kernel, libusb),
NetBSD (libusb), OpenBSD (kernel, libusb). Detecting the vendor and device ids
only works with Linux or libusb.
SCSI support is available on Irix, EMX, Linux, Next, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and HP-UX.
No support for most parallel port scanners yet.
Detection of USB chipsets is limited to a few chipsets.