sane-ibm(5)              SANE Scanner Access Now Easy              sane-ibm(5)



NAME
       sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION
       The sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
       backend that provides access to the IBM 2456 and the Ricoh IS-410,
       IS-420, and IS-430 flatbed scanners. Support for the IS-410 and IS-430
       is 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 example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.


CONFIGURATION
       The contents of the ibm.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/ibm.conf
              The backend configuration file (see also description of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

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

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.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_IBM
              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.


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


AUTHOR
       mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
       Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>



                                  13 Jul 2008                      sane-ibm(5)
