.TH sane-find-scanner 1 "31 December 2000"
.IX sane-find-scanner
.SH NAME
sane-find-scanner - find SCSI scanners and their device files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sane-find-scanner
.RB [\-h|\-?]
.RB [\-v]
.RI [devname]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B sane-find-scanner
is a command-line tool to find SCSI scanners and determine their Unix device
files. It's part of the sane-backends package. It checks the default generic
SCSI devices, e.g. /dev/sg? for Linux.  Also /dev/scanner is checked. The test
is done by sending a SCSI inquiry command and looking for a device type of
"scanner" or "processor" (some old HP scanners seem to send "processor"). So
sane-find-scanner will find any SCSI scanner even if it isn't supported by any
SANE backend. It won't find parallel port, USB, or other non-SCSI scanners.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP 8
.B \-h, \-?
Prints a short usage message.
.TP 8
.B \-v
Verbose output. Show every device name and the test result.
.TP 8
.B devname
Test device file "devname". No other devices are checked if devname is given.
.SH EXAMPLE
.B sane-find-scanner -v
.br
Check all SCSI devices for available scanners and print a line for every
device file.
.PP
.B sane-find-scanner /dev/scanner
.br
Look for a scanner (only) at /dev/scanner and print the result.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
sane(7), sane-scsi(5), scanimage(1), xscanimage(1), xsane(1), sane-"backendname"(5)
.SH AUTHOR
Oliver Rauch and others. Manual page by Henning Meier-Geinitz.
.SH BUGS
No support for non-SCSI scanners yet.