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Commands

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Options

devname

Check only the specified device for a scanner.

-f Force the opening of any SCSI and USB devices specified with

devname, in case the command is wrong in determining the

device type.

-h, -?

Print a usage message and exit.

-p Test for parallel-port scanners. Note that most parallel-port

scanners won’t be detected, even with this option.

-q Run quietly, printing only the devices.

-v Run verbosely. When specified as -v, show every device name

and test result; as -vv, also print SCSI inquiry information and

USB device descriptors.

scanadf

scanadf [options]

Control scanners with an automatic document feeder (ADF),

which can return multiple documents. The images are written to

output files specified by the --outputfile option. scanadf uses the

SANE interface to access the scanner and can support any device

for which there is a SANE backend.

Options

-d device, --device-name device

Specify a SANE device name. The default is to attempt to open

the first available device.

-e num, --end-count num

Specify the last page number to scan.

-h, --help

Print help message and exit. You can get device-specific help

by running scanadf as follows:

scanadf -h -d device

-L, --list-devices

Display a list of available devices. The list may not be

complete, particularly when accessing scanners ...