sane-ricoh(5)

hey bestie 💖 welcome to the sane-ricoh(5) main-character moment — this is the manual page for the SANE backend for Ricoh flatbed scanners. ok so it’s short, but we’re gonna read every crumb, no cap. 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

• sane-ricoh — SANE backend for Ricoh flatbed scanners.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The sane-ricoh library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the following Ricoh flatbed scanners:

• IS50
• IS60

🎀 DEVICE NAMES 🎀

This backend expects device names of the form:

special

Where special is the path-name for the special device that corresponds to a SCSI scanner. The special device name must be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to such a device. The program sane-find-scanner(1) helps to find out the correct device. Under Linux, such a device name could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example. See sane-scsi(5) for details.

bestie, this is the literal vibe check: special has to be a generic SCSI device or a symlink to one. slay that detail. 💅

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/sane.d/ricoh.conf — the backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below 👀).
• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ricoh.a — the static library implementing this backend.
• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-ricoh.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_RICOH — 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.

Example:

export SANE_DEBUG_RICOH=4

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• sane(7)
• sane-scsi(5)
• sane-find-scanner(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Feico W. Dillema — show some love, bestie 👑.

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k bye bestie 💋 — this was sane-ricoh(5), dated 14 Jul 2008, coming at you from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy side of the manual-page universe. periodt. 🫶