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

NAME
       sane-abaton - SANE backend for Abaton flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION
       The  sane-abaton	 library  implements  a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
       backend that provides access to Abaton flatbed  scanners.  At  present,
       only the Scan 300/GS (8bit, 256 levels of gray) is fully supported, due
       to the absence of programming information.  The Scan 300/S  (black  and
       white) is recognized, but support for it is untested.

       If you own a Abaton scanner other than the ones listed above that works
       with this backend, or if you own an Abaton scanner that does  not  work
       with  this  backend,  please contact sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
       with the model number, so that arrangements can be made to include sup‐
       port  for  it.  Have  a	look  at  http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-
       lists.html concerning subscription to sane-devel.

       Abaton is out of business, and these  scanners  are  not	 supported  by
       Everex  (the  parent  company  of Abaton), nor is there any programming
       information to be found.	 This driver is therefore based on information
       obtained	 by running Abaton's scanning desk accessory under MacsBug and
       tracing the MacOS SCSI Manager calls it made during image acquisition.

       However, the protocol is very similar to, though not  compatible	 with,
       the  one used by the Apple scanners, therefore, if this backend is ever
       extended to support the other Abaton models (they  also	made  a	 color
       flatbed	scanner),  it may be possible to fill in some "missing pieces"
       from the (quite detailed) Apple scanner documentation.

DEVICE NAMES
       This backend expects device names of the form:

	      special

       Where special is the path-name for the special device that  corresponds
       to a SCSI scanner. For SCSI scanners, the special device name must be a
       generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device.  Under Linux, such a
       device  name  takes a format such as /dev/sga or /dev/sg0, for example.
       See sane-scsi(5) for details.

CONFIGURATION
       The contents of the abaton.conf file is a list  of  device  names  that
       correspond  to  Abaton scanners.	 Empty lines and lines starting with a
       hash mark (#) are ignored.  See sane-scsi(5) on details of what consti‐
       tutes a valid device name.

FILES
       /system/resources/sane-backends/1.0.18/etc/sane.d/abaton.conf
	      The   backend   configuration  file  (see	 also  description  of
	      SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /system/resources/sane-backends/1.0.18/lib/sane/libsane-abaton.a
	      The static library implementing this backend.

       /system/resources/sane-backends/1.0.18/lib/sane/libsane-abaton.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 config‐
	      uration  file is searched in two default directories: first, the
	      current	working	  directory   (".")   and   then   in	 /sys‐
	      tem/resources/sane-backends/1.0.18/etc/sane.d.   If the value of
	      the environment variable ends with the directory separator char‐
	      acter,  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	 "/system/resources/sane-back‐
	      ends/1.0.18/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).

       SANE_DEBUG_ABATON
	      If  the  library	was  compiled with debug support enabled, this
	      environment variable controls the debug level for this  backend.
	      E.g.,  a	value  of 255 requests all debug output to be printed.
	      Smaller levels reduce verbosity.

BUGS
       There are a few known ones, and definitely some unknown ones.

       Scan area miscalculations
	      For the sake of programmer efficiency, this backend handles  all
	      measurements  in	millimetres,  and  floors (rather than rounds)
	      values to	 avoid	possible  damage  to  the  scanner  mechanism.
	      Therefore,  it  may not be possible to scan to the extreme right
	      or bottom edges of the page.

       Cancelling the scan
	      This might not work correctly, or it might abort	the  frontend.
	      The former is more likely than the latter.

       If  you have found something that you think is a bug, please attempt to
       recreate it with the SANE_DEBUG_ABATON environment variable set to 255,
       and send a report detailing the conditions surrounding the bug to sane-
       devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.

TODO
       Implement non-blocking support

       Finish reverse-engineering the MacOS driver
	      This will allow me to add support for other models with  reason‐
	      able  confidence	that it will work, as well as to fully exploit
	      the information returned by the INQUIRY command.

SEE ALSO
       sane(7), sane-scsi(5), scanimage(1)

AUTHOR
       The sane-abaton backend was partially written by David  Huggins-Daines,
       based on the sane-apple backend by Milon Firikis.

sane-backends 1.0.18		  19 Nov 1998			sane-abaton(5)
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