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NAME

       sane-mustek_usb - SANE backend for Mustek USB flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION

       The sane-mustek_usb library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
       backend that provides access to Mustek USB flatbed scanners  (including
       a  clone  from Trust).  At present, the following scanners are known to
       work more or less with this backend:

              Mustek 600 CU
              Mustek 1200 UB
              Mustek 1200 CU
              Mustek 1200 CU Plus
              Trust Compact Scan USB 19200

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

       The  Mustek BearPaw 1200 and 2400 scanners are supported by the plustek
       backend. See sane-plustek(5) for details. The Mustek BearPaw  1200F  is
       supported by the MA-1509 backend. See sane-ma1509(5) for details. Other
       Mustek  USB  scanners  are  supported  by  the  gt68xx   backend,   see
       sane-gt68xx(5).

       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 Mustek (or Trust) scanner other than the ones listed above
       that  works  with  this backend, please let me know this 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 /dev/usbscanner1, for example.

       For FreeBSD use /dev/uscanner0.

CONFIGURATION

       The  contents  of  the  mustek_usb.conf  file  is a list of options and
       device names that correspond to Mustek USB scanners.  Empty  lines  and
       lines  starting  with  a hash mark (#) are ignored. If a device name is
       placed in mustek_usb.conf, it must be followed by a line containing the
       keyword option and an option specifying the scanner type. The following
       options can be used: 600cu, 1200cu, 1200cu_plus, 1200ub.  For the Trust
       Compact Scan USB 19200 use ‘option 1200ub’.

       Instead  of  using  the device name, the scanner can be autodetected by
       usb vendor_id product_id statements which  are  already  included  into
       mustek_usb.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 and the option specifying the scanner type must  be  placed
       in mustek_usb.conf as described above.

       The  global  option  max_block_size  can be used to limit the amount of
       data acquired in one turn from the USB system. It may be worth  trying,
       if USB errors occur.

       A sample configuration file is shown below:

              # Comment
              option max_block_size 1024
              usb 0x055f 0x0001
              /dev/usb/scanner0
              option 600cu

       The  first  line  is ignored. The second line sets the buffer size to a
       maximum of 1024 bytes.  The third line tries to  autodetect  a  scanner
       with  vendor  id  0x055f  and  product  id 0x0001 (Mustek 1200 CU). The
       fourth line tells the backend to attach to  /dev/usb/scanner0  and  the
       fifth line specifies that /dev/usb/scanner0 is a Mustek 600 CU.

FILES

       /etc/sane.d/mustek_usb.conf
              The   backend   configuration  file  (see  also  description  of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/lib/sane/libsane-mustek_usb.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/lib/sane/libsane-mustek_usb.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.  Under UNIX, 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_MUSTEK_USB
              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.

              Value  Description
              0      no output
              1      print fatal errors
              2      print important messages
              3      print non-fatal errors and less important messages
              4      print all but debugging messages
              5      print high level debugging messages
              6      print medium level debugging messages
              7      print low level debugging messages

              Example: export SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB=4

SEE ALSO

       sane(7),      sane-usb(5),      sane-mustek(5),      sane-mustek_pp(5),
       sane-plustek(5), sane-gt68xx(5), sane-ma1509(5)
       /usr/share/doc/libsane/mustek_usb/mustek_usb.CHANGES,
       /usr/share/doc/libsane/mustek_usb/mustek_usb.TODO
       http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/

AUTHOR

       Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
       This backend is  based  on  the  Mustek  1200ub  backend  from  Mustek,
       maintained by Tom Wang.

BUGS

       These  devices  have a hardware bug: Once data is written to them, they
       can’t be reset (toggle = DATA0). That means, any operation  that  tries
       to reset the device will result in running into timeouts.

       In  earlier  versions this backend failed when it was loaded the second
       time in some configurations. The only choice was to replug the  scanner
       in  this  case. The backend uses a workaround for that bug now but it’s
       only  tested  on  Linux.  Reports  for  other  operating  systems   are
       appreciated.

       More  detailed  bug  information  is  available  at  the Mustek backend
       homepage http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/.

                                  13 Jul 2008               sane-mustek_usb(5)