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<B><A HREF="sane-canon_pp.5.html">sane-canon_pp(5)</A></B> SANE Scanner Access Now Easy <B><A HREF="sane-canon_pp.5.html">sane-canon_pp(5)</A></B>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
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sane-canon_pp - SANE backend for Canon CanoScan Parallel Port flatbed
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scanners
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
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The <B>sane-canon_pp</B> library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
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backend that provides access to the following Canon flatbed scanners:
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CanoScan FB320P
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CanoScan FB620P
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CanoScan FB330P
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CanoScan FB630P
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CanoScan N340P
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CanoScan N640P
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CanoScan N640P ex
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No USB scanners are supported and there are no plans to support them in
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the future. Other projects are working on support for USB scanners.
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See the <I>PROJECTS</I> file for more detail. The FB310P and FB610P are re-
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badged Avision scanners which use a different command set, so are
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unlikely to be supported by this backend in the future.
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IMPORTANT: this is alpha code. While we have made every effort to make
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it as reliable as possible, it will not always work as expected. Feed-
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back is still appreciated. Please send any bug reports to the main-
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tainers as listed on the web page (listed in <B>SEE</B> <B>ALSO</B> below).
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<H2>DEVICE NAMES</H2><PRE>
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This backend expects device names of the form presented by
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<B><A HREF="libieee1284.3.html">libieee1284(3)</A></B>. These names are highly dependent on operating system
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and version.
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On Linux 2.4 kernels this will be of the form <I>parport0</I> or older (2.2
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and before) kernels may produce names like <I>0x378</I> (the base address of
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your port) or simply <I>0</I> depending on your module configuration. Check
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the contents of <I>/proc/parport</I> if it exists. If you don't want to spec-
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ify a default port (or don't know its name), the backend should be able
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to detect which port your scanner is on.
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<H2>CONFIGURATION</H2><PRE>
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The contents of the <I>canon</I><B>_</B><I>pp.conf</I> file is a list of options for the
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driver to use. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are
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ignored.
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The supported options are currently <B>ieee1284</B>, <B>calibrate</B>, <B>init_mode</B>, and
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<B>force_nibble</B>
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Option <B>ieee1284</B> <I>port-name</I> defines which port to use. The format of
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port-name is OS dependent, based on the names presented by libieee1284.
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Please only have one of these lines, or all but one will be ignored.
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Option <B>calibrate</B> <I>cal-file</I> <I>[port-name]</I> defines which calibration file to
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use on a per-port basis. If you only have one parport, the port-name
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argument may be omitted - but be careful as this will cause problems on
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multi-scanner systems. You may have as many of these lines as you
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like, as long as each has a unique port name. The tilde (`~') charac-
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ter is acceptable and will be expanded to the value of the HOME envi-
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ronment.
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Option <B>init_mode</B> <I><AUTO|FB620P|FB630P></I> <I>[portname]</I> defines which initial-
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isation (wake-up) mode to use on a per-port basis. If you only have
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one parport, the portname argument may be omitted - but be careful as
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this may cause problems on multi-scanner systems. You may have as many
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of these lines as you like, as long as each has a unique port name.
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The valid initialisation modes are FB620P (which strobes 10101010 and
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01010101 on the data pins), FB630P (which strobes 11001100 and 00110011
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on the data pins) and AUTO, which will try FB630P mode first then
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FB620P mode second. The FB620P mode is also used by the FB320P. The
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FB630P mode is used by the FB330P, N340P, and N640P.
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Option <B>force_nibble</B> forces the driver to use nibble mode even if ECP
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mode is reported to work by libieee1284. This works-around the rare
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issue of ECP mode being reported to work by the library, then not work-
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ing.
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<H2>TIPS</H2><PRE>
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Hit the "Calibrate" button before scanning. It vastly improves the
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quality of scans.
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To enable automatic detection of your scanner, uncomment the "canon_pp"
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line from <I>/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf</I>
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<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
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<I>/usr/local/etc/sane.d/canon</I><B>_</B><I>pp.conf</I>
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The backend configuration file (see also description of
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<B>SANE_CONFIG_DIR</B> below).
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<I>/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-canon</I><B>_</B><I>pp.a</I>
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The static library implementing this backend.
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<I>/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-canon</I><B>_</B><I>pp.so</I>
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The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
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that support dynamic loading).
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<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
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<B>SANE_CONFIG_DIR</B>
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This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
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may contain the configuration file. On *NIX systems, the direc-
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tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep-
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arated by a semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the
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configuration file is searched in two default directories:
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first, the current working directory (".") and then in
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<I>/usr/local/etc/sane.d</I>. If the value of the environment variable
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ends with the directory separator character, then the default
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directories are searched after the explicitly specified directo-
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ries. For example, setting <B>SANE_CONFIG_DIR</B> to "/tmp/config:"
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would result in directories <I>tmp/config</I>, <I>.</I>, and
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<I>/usr/local/etc/sane.d</I> being searched (in this order).
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<B>SANE_DEBUG_CANON_PP</B>
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If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this
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environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
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Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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Example: export SANE_DEBUG_CANON_PP=4
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<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
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<B>Features</B> <B>available</B> <B>in</B> <B>the</B> <B>Windows</B> <B>interface</B>
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<B>Brightness</B> <B>and</B> <B>Contrast</B>
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These are not implemented, and probably never will be. These
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appear to be implemented entirely in software. Use GIMP or a
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similar program if you need these features.
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<B>Descreen</B> <B>Mode</B>
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This appears on our first analysis to be just oversampling with
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an anti-aliasing filter. Again, it seems to be implemented
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entirely in software, so GIMP is your best bet for now.
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<B>Gamma</B> <B>Tables</B>
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This is under investigation, but for now only a simple gamma
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profile (ie: the one returned during calibration) will be
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loaded.
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<B>Communication</B> <B>Problems</B>
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ECP mode in libieee1284 doesn't always work properly, even with new
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hardware. We believe that this is a ppdev problem. If you change the
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configuration file to include <B>force_nibble</B> , the problem will go away,
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but you will only be able to scan in nibble mode.
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Sometimes the scanner can be left in a state where our code cannot
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revive it. If the backend reports no scanner present, try unplugging
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the power and plugging it back in. Also try unplugging printers from
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the pass-through port.
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The scanner will not respond correctly to our commands when you first
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plug in the power. You may find if you try a scan very soon after
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plugging in the power that the backend will incorrectly report that you
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have no scanner present. To avoid this, give it about 10 seconds to
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reset itself before attempting any scans.
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<B>Repeated</B> <B>Lines</B>
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Sometimes at high resolutions (ie. 600dpi) you will notice lines which
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appear twice. These lines correspond to points where the scanner head
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has stopped during the scan (it stops every time the internal 64kb buf-
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fer is full). Basically it's a mechanical problem inside the scanner,
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that the tolerance of movement for a start/stop event is greater than
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1/600 inches. I've never tried the windows driver so I'm not sure how
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(or if) it works around this problem, but as we don't know how to
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rewind the scanner head to do these bits again, there's currently no
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nice way to deal with the problem.
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<B>Grey-scale</B> <B>Scans</B>
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Be aware that the scanner uses the green LEDs to read grey-scale scans,
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meaning green coloured things will appear lighter than normal, and red
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and blue coloured items will appear darker than normal. For high-accu-
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racy grey-scale scans of colour items, it's best just to scan in colour
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and convert to grey-scale in graphics software such as the GIMP.
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<B>FB620P/FB320P</B> <B>Caveats</B>
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These models can not be reset in the same way as the others. The win-
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dows driver doesn't know how to reset them either - when left with an
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inconsistent scanner, it will start scanning half way down the page!
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Aborting is known to work correctly on the FB*30P models, and is known
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to be broken on the FB*20P models. The FB620P which I tested on simply
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returns garbage after a scan has been aborted using the method we know.
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Aborting is able to leave the scanner in a state where it can be shut
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down, but not where another scan can be made.
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</PRE>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
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<B><A HREF="sane.7.html">sane(7)</A></B>, <B>sane-dll(5),</B> <B><A HREF="libieee1284.3.html">libieee1284(3)</A></B>,
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<I>http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net/</I>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
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This backend is primarily the work of Simon Krix (Reverse Engineering),
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and Matthew Duggan (SANE interface).
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Many thanks to Kevin Easton for his comments and help, and Kent A. Sig-
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norini for his help with the N340P.
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11 Jul 2008 <B><A HREF="sane-canon_pp.5.html">sane-canon_pp(5)</A></B>
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