sane-mustek_usb2(5)

🎀 sane-mustek_usb2 — the manual page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real quick: this is sane-mustek_usb2(5), part of the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy family of manual pages (section 5, the file-formats-and-misc girlies 💅). buckle up, we're talking about a scanner backend.

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✨ NAME ✨

sane-mustek_usb2 — the SANE backend for SQ113-based USB flatbed scanners. it's giving "niche but iconic" 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The sane-mustek_usb2 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend, and what it does is give you access to USB flatbed scanners built on the Service & Quality SQ113 chipset. literally that's the whole vibe.

Right now? Only the Mustek BearPaw 2448 TA Pro is supported. Just the one. It's planned to add support for other scanners that are based on the SQ113 and maybe the SQ11 chip — so like, watch this space 👀. For more deets, check out the sane-mustek_usb2 backend homepage: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb2-backend/.

⚠️ this is BETA software, no cap. Especially if you're testing new or untested scanners, keep your hand at the scanner's plug and unplug it if the head bumps at the end of the scan area. like genuinely, hand on the plug, main character safety energy 🫶

If you own a scanner other than the ones listed on the mustek_usb2 homepage that works with this backend, please let me know — send the scanner's exact model name and the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from sane-find-scanner(1) or syslog) to me. Even if the scanner's name is only slightly different from the models already listed as supported, please let me know. slight difference still counts, bestie, I want the data 💖

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🔌 LIBUSB ISSUES 🔌

Please use libusb-0.1.8 or later. Without libusb, or with older libusb versions, all kinds of trouble can be expected — and not the fun kind 😭. The scanner should be found by sane-find-scanner(1) without further actions. For setting permissions and general USB information, look at sane-usb(5).

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📁 FILES 📁

• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-mustek_usb2.a — the static library implementing this backend.
• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-mustek_usb2.so — the shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB2 — 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. louder = more info, periodt 💅

Example:

export SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB2=4

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

sane(7), sane-usb(5), sane-plustek(5), sane-ma1509(5), sane-mustek_usb(5), sane-mustek(5), sane-mustek_pp(5), sane-find-scanner(1)

/usr/share/doc/sane-backends/mustek_usb2/mustek_usb2.CHANGES

http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb2-backend/

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

The driver has been written by Roy Zhou, Jack Xu, and Vinci Cen from Mustek. Adjustments to SANE by Henning Meier-Geinitz. icons, the whole squad 🫡

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please contact me if you find a bug or missing feature: <henning@meier-geinitz.de>. Please send a debug log if your scanner isn't detected correctly (see SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB2 above). receipts help fr fr 🍓

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and that's the page!! sign-off time: this was sane-mustek_usb2(5) from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy crew, dated 13 Jul 2008 — a vintage icon, we stan 🎀✨💜