sane-ma1509(5)           SANE Scanner Access Now Easy           sane-ma1509(5)



NAME
       sane-ma1509 - SANE backend for Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB scanner

DESCRIPTION
       The sane-ma1509 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
       backend that provides access to the Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB flatbed
       scanner. This scanner is based on the MA-1509 chipset. Other scanners
       that use this chip (if they exist) may also work.

       This backend is ALPHA software.  Be careful and remove the power plug
       immediately if your hear unusual noises.

       More details can be found on the ma1509 backend homepage
       http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

       Other Mustek USB scanners are supported by the gt68xx, mustek_usb and
       the plustek backends. See sane-mustek_usb(5), sane-gt68xx(5) and
       sane-plustek(5) for details.

       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 scanner other than the Mustek BearPaw 1200F 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 libusb:001:002, for example.

CONFIGURATION
       The contents of the ma1509.conf file is a list of options and device
       names that correspond to Mustek BearPaw 1200F scanners.  Empty lines
       and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.

       Instead of using the device name, the scanner can be autodetected by
       usb vendor_id product_id statements which are already included into
       ma1509.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 must be placed in ma1509.conf as described above.

       To set the time the lamp needs for warm-up, use option warmup-time in
       ma1509.conf.  The time is given in seconds after the option. The
       default is 30 seconds.

FILES
       /etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf
              The backend configuration file (see also description of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ma1509.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_MA1509
              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.


SEE ALSO
       sane(7), sane-usb(5), sane-gt68xx(5), sane-plustek(5),
       sane-mustek_usb(5), sane-mustek(5), sane-mustek_pp(5),
       http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/


AUTHOR
       Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>


BUGS
       Resolutions higher than 600 dpi don't work
       Transparency adapter and automatic document feeder is not supported yet
       No support for "high-speed" mode (jpeg)

       More detailed bug information is available at the MA-1509 backend
       homepage http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.



                                  13 Jul 2008                   sane-ma1509(5)
