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>The Scanner HOWTO</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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TITLE="Introduction"
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NAME="AEN2"
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>The Scanner HOWTO</H1
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CLASS="AUTHOR"
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NAME="AEN4"
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>Howard Shane</A
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HREF="mailto:hshane[AT]austin.rr.com"
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>hshane[AT]austin.rr.com</A
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VALIGN="TOP"
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COLSPAN="3"
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>Revision History</B
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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>Revision 1.1</TD
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>2004-05-16</TD
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>Revised by: jhs</TD
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>Libusb and kernel 2.6-series updates, clarifications</TD
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>Revision 1.05</TD
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>2004-01-15</TD
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>Revised by: jhs</TD
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>Miscellaneous errata and updates</TD
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>Revision 1.0</TD
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>2003-08-19</TD
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>Revised by: tm</TD
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>Initial release, reviewed by LDP</TD
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>Revision 0.04</TD
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>07-03</TD
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>Revised by: jhs</TD
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>Clarified, revised and edited after inviting feedback from participants of the SANE-devel mailing list</TD
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>Revision 0.01</TD
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>06-03</TD
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>Revised by: jhs</TD
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>Completed draft.</TD
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NAME="AEN36"
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>This document was written to document the steps necessary for access and use of a photographic scanner device on a system running Linux. </P
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="intro.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT"
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>Copyright Information</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER"
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>Disclaimer</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS"
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>New Versions</A
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>1.4. <A
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HREF="intro.html#CREDITS"
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>Credits</A
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>1.5. <A
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HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK"
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>Feedback</A
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>1.6. <A
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HREF="intro.html#CONVENTIONS"
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>Conventions Used in this Document</A
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>2. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html"
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>General Support and Interface Type</A
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#SCSI-TYPE"
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>SCSI Scanners</A
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#USB-TYPE"
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>USB Scanners</A
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><DT
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>2.3. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#PARPORT-TYPE"
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>Parallel Port Scanners</A
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>2.4. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#IEEE1394"
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>IEEE 1394 (<SPAN
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>Firewire</SPAN
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>™, <SPAN
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>i.Link</SPAN
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>™)</A
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HREF="interfaces.html#OSSUPPORT"
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>Operating System Support</A
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>2.6. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#LIBUSB"
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>USB Scanners and Libusb</A
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>2.7. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#KERNEL"
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>Linux Kernel Support of your Scanner Device</A
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>2.8. <A
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HREF="interfaces.html#PARPORT-GENERAL"
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>Parallel Port Scanners</A
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>3. <A
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>Making and Accessing the Scanner Devices</A
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="dev-intro.html#DEVFSD"
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>Device Filesystem and Udev</A
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="dev-intro.html#DEV-MANUAL"
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>Creating Devices Manually</A
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HREF="dev-intro.html#PERMISSIONS"
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>Groups and Permissions</A
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>4. <A
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>SANE</A
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>4.1. <A
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>Getting SANE</A
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HREF="sane.html#CONFIG-SANE"
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>Configuring SANE</A
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>5. <A
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>Testing Your Scanner</A
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>6. <A
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>SANE Frontends</A
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>Troubleshooting</A
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>Help, my scanner cannot be found by scanimage or xsane!</A
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>7.2. <A
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HREF="troubleshooting.html#USB-HARD"
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>Help, I'm not sure my USB hardware is working!</A
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>7.3. <A
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HREF="troubleshooting.html#BACKEND-CONFIG"
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>Help, scanimage or the frontend I am using identifies the wrong device!</A
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>7.4. <A
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HREF="troubleshooting.html#PARPORT-ROOT"
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>Help, I can only access my parallel-port scanner as root!</A
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>7.5. <A
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HREF="troubleshooting.html#LISTS"
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>Help, I have an <SPAN
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>Acme Whizzbang</SPAN
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>™ or other model scanner and you haven't addressed my particular problem!</A
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>8. <A
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>Gnu Free Documentation License</A
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