sane-ma1509(5)

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version 1.4.0 · 6 versions
, in centos-stream 10, fedora 43, fedora 44, opensuse-leap 16.0

🦋 NAME 🦋

Okay bestie, meet sane-ma1509(5) — the SANE backend for the Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB scanner. SANE = Scanner Access Now Easy, and this is literally its manual page. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the sane-ma1509 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that gives you access to the Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB flatbed scanner. This scanner is based on the MA-1509 chipset. Other scanners that use this chip (if they exist) may also work. 👑

🚨 This backend is ALPHA software. Be careful, and remove the power plug immediately if you hear unusual noises. No cap, safety first.

More details can be found on the sane-ma1509 backend homepage http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

Other Mustek USB scanners are supported by the sane-mustek_usb(5), sane-gt68xx(5) and sane-plustek(5) backends.

This backend can only work with scanners that are already detected by the operating system. See sane-usb(5) for details.

If you own a scanner other than the Mustek BearPaw 1200F that works with this backend, please let me know by sending the scanner's exact model name and the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from /proc/bus/usb/devices or syslog) to me. 🫶

🎀 DEVICE NAMES 🎀

This backend expects device names of the form:

special

Where special is a path-name for the special device that corresponds to a USB scanner. With Linux, such a device name could be /dev/usb/scanner0 or libusb:001:002, for example. 🌸

🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

The contents of the ma1509.conf file is a list of options and device names that correspond to Mustek BearPaw 1200F scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. 💅

Instead of using the device name, the scanner can be autodetected by usb vendor_id product_id statements which are already included into ma1509.conf. This is only supported with Linux 2.4.8 and higher and all systems that support libsub. vendor_id and product_id are hexadecimal numbers that identify the scanner. If this doesn't work, a device name must be placed in ma1509.conf as described above.

To set the time the lamp needs for warm-up, use option warmup-time in ma1509.conf. The time is given in seconds after the option. The default is 30 seconds. ⭐

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf — the backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
  • /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ma1509.a — the static library implementing this backend.
  • /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ma1509.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. On *NIX systems, 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_MA1509 — 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 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> 💌

💀 BUGS 💀

  • Resolutions higher than 600 dpi don't work
  • Transparency adapter and automatic document feeder is not supported yet
  • No support for "high-speed" mode (jpeg)

More detailed bug information is available at the MA-1509 backend homepage http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/. 😭

Okay bye bestie! 💋 This iconic page is from 13 Jul 2008 and comes to you via SANE Scanner Access Now Easy — it's sane-ma1509(5), and it ate. 🎀

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