xcam(1)

🎀 xcam 🎀

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for xcam — yes, that's the <pink>xcam(1)</pink> situation, General Commands Manual energy, and it's literally a graphical camera frontend for SANE 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xcam — a graphical camera frontend for SANE 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xcam [--buffer|-B] [--version|-V] [--help|-h]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

xcam gives you a whole graphical user-interface to control an image acquisition device — like a flatbed scanner or a camera, you know the ones 📸 It lets you scan individual images, and you can literally just invoke it straight from the command-line. main character energy fr fr.

xcam is a stand-alone program that saves acquired images in a suitable PNM format, and here's the breakdown so you're never confused:

• PBM for black-and-white images
• PGM for grayscale images
• PPM for color images

xcam accesses image acquisition devices through the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) interface. the list of available devices depends on installed hardware and configuration — so like, no cap, what you see is what your setup gives you 🦋

xcam presents a menu listing of all known and available devices. go pick your fave, she's waiting 💜

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --Buffer (-B) — if this one's given, xcam will use a 1024 kByte input buffer instead of the default 32 kByte. big buffer, big dreams 🧚
• --version (-V) — if this one's given, xcam will output its version number. iconic. we love a program that knows itself ✨
• --help (-h) — this flag prints a short summary of options. your little cheat sheet, bestie 🎀

lowkey important: the synopsis up top spells it --buffer and this section spells it --Buffer — both are in the page, both are real, don't come for me 🙈

🐛 SANE_DEBUG_XCAM 🐛

this environment variable controls the debug level of xcam. higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output — so the higher you go, the more she talks 🗣️

• 0 — print fatal errors
• 1 — print errors
• 2 — print warnings
• 3 — print information messages
• 4 — print everything

Example:

SANE_DEBUG_XCAM=3

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📁 FILES 📁

• $HOME/.sane/xcam/devicename.rc — for each device, there is one rc-file that holds the saved settings for that particular device. normally, this file should not be manipulated directly 🙅‍♀️ instead, the user should use the xcam interface to select appropriate values and then save the device settings using the "Preferences->Save as default settings" menubar entry. let the GUI do the work, she's got it 💅

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

sane(7), xscanimage(1), scanimage(1), sane-dll(5) and the backend manpages 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

David Mosberger-Tang

Gerard Klaver (2005 update)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's dated 19 February 2008 and lives under xcam(1) — 2008 said "let me serve you a scanner frontend" and honestly? she ate 💖🦋✨🎀💜