AIRSCAN-DISCOVER(1)

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✨ AIRSCAN-DISCOVER ✨

okay bestie, so this is airscan-discover, a page from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy manual, and it's literally the little tool that goes out and finds your scanners for you 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

airscan-discover — go find me some sane-airscan compatible scanners, fr fr 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

airscan-discover [options]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so airscan-discover is a command-line tool and its whole job is to hunt down eSCL and WSD scanners hanging out on your local network 🔍✨

the way it does this: it uses Avahi to discover DNS-SD devices, and then it uses its own implementation of WS-Discovery to find WSD devices. two whole discovery methods, no cap 👑

and when it succeeds?? it prints out a fragment of a sane-airscan configuration file, which you can just drop straight into /etc/sane.d/airscan.conf. that's it. that's the whole serve 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -test-fast or --test-fast — fast discovery mode (peep sane-airscan(5) for the details, iykyk)
  • -test-auto or --test-auto — automatic protocol selection (again, sane-airscan(5) has the tea ☕)
  • -d — prints debug messages to the console, so you can watch it do its thing 👀
  • -t — writes a very detailed protocol trace to airscan-discover-zeroconf.log and airscan-discover-zeroconf.tar. extremely thorough, extremely nosy, we love her 💀
  • -h — prints the help screen 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • airscan-discover-zeroconf.log — the protocol trace lives here
  • airscan-discover-zeroconf.tar — any non-textual messages get saved here, if there are any. textual (i.e., XML) messages get included directly into the .log file instead 💜

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

sane(7), sane-airscan(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Alexander Pevzner <pzz@apevzner.com>

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this was the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy manual, dated April 2026 — slay, go find your scanner, periodt ✨🎀

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