sane-as6e(5)

✨ sane-as6e(5) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for sane-as6e — and yes, it's part of that SANE family, aka Scanner Access Now Easy. 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

sane-as6e — the SANE backend that lets you talk to an Artec AS6E parallel port interface scanner. that's it, that's the whole job. slay. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The sane-as6e library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend, and what it does is give you access to the Artec AS6E flatbed scanner. 👑

Here's the thing though, and it's giving major plot twist: it requires the as6edriver program in order to operate. like, it cannot do the thing without it. no cap.

And — not me having to be the one to tell you this 😭 — the as6edriver program is not included with the SANE package. it lives somewhere else entirely:

http://as6edriver.sourceforge.net

go get it there. 🫶 For technical information, go read the as6edriver documentation. that's where the real tea is.

Also, super important, the as6edriver program must be in the path for executables ($PATH). Especially — and I mean especially — if you run saned(8) (the SANE network scanning daemon, our girl), take care to set up the path for inetd(8) or xinetd(8) correctly, or just place the program in a directory that's in the path. 🧚

okay but fr fr, the $PATH thing is where people get got. do it right the first time and save yourself the group chat meltdown. 💀

🌸 FILES 🌸

• as6edriver — the driver program that controls the scanner. it's the main character here, honestly. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sane(7)
• as6edriver(5)
• saned(8)
• inetd(8)
• xinetd(8)

and also, don't forget:

http://as6edriver.sourceforge.net

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Eugene S. Weiss ✨

🍓 EMAIL-CONTACT 🍓

yossarian@users.sourceforge.net — go say hi, be normal about it. 🙈

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🫶 this page is from 11 Jul 2008 and it's still living in the sane-as6e(5) era — iconic behavior, we stan a classic. 💖✨🎀