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NAME
sane-hp5590 - SANE backend for Hewlett-Packard 4500C/4570C/5500C/5550C/5590/7650 Workgroup/Document scan‐
ners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-hp5590 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the
following Hewlett-Packard Workgroup/Document scanners:
• ScanJet 4500C
• ScanJet 4570C
• ScanJet 5500C
• ScanJet 5550C
• ScanJet 5590
• ScanJet 7650
If you own a scanner other than the ones listed above that works with this backend, please let us know
this by sending the scanner’s exact model name and the USB vendor and device ids (e.g. from
/sys/bus/usb/devices, sane-find-scanner(1) or syslog) to us. Even if the scanner’s name is only slightly
different from the models mentioned above, please let us know.
OPTIONS
The options the backend supports can either be selected through command line options to programs like
scanimage(1) or through GUI elements in xscanimage(1) or xsane(1). Valid command line options and their
syntax can be listed by using:
scanimage --help -d hp5590:interface:device
where interface and device specify the device in question, as in the configuration file. Add --all-op‐
tions to also list the hardware read-out options. The -d parameter and its argument can be omitted to
obtain information on the first scanner identified.
Use the command:
scanimage -L
to list all devices recognized by your SANE installation.
DEVICE SPECIFIC OPTIONS
-l n Top-left X position of scan area in mm. Allowed range: 0 .. 215.889.
-t n Top-left Y position of scan area in mm. Allowed range: 0 .. 297.699.
-x n X width of scan-area in mm. Allowed range: 0 .. 215.889.
-y n Y height of scan-area in mm. Allowed range: 0 .. 297.699.
By default, the maximum size will be scanned.
--mode mode
Select color mode. mode must be one of: “Color”, “Color (48 bits)”, “Gray”, “Lineart”.
• “Color” - Scanning is done with 3 * 8 bit RGB color values per pixel.
• “Color (48 bits)” - Scanning is done with 3 * 16 bit RGB color values per pixel.
• “Gray” - Scanning is done with 1 * 8 bit gray value per pixel.
• “Lineart” - Scanning is done with 1 bit black and white value per pixel.
--source source
Select the source for scanning. source must be one of: “Flatbed”, “ADF”, “ADF Duplex”, “TMA
Slides”, “TMA Negatives”.
• “Flatbed” - Scan document on the flat document glass.
• “ADF” - Scan frontsides of documents with automatic document feeder.
• “ADF Duplex” - Scan front- and backsides of documents with automatic document feeder. Note, the
backside images must be rotated in a separate post process step.
• “TMA Slides” - Slide scanning with transparent media adapter. (Not fully supported by hp5590
backend).
• “TMA Negatives” - Negative film scanning with transparent media adapter. (Not fully supported
by hp5590 backend).
--resolution res
Set the resolution of the scanned image in dpi. res must be one of: 100, 200, 300, 600, 1200,
2400.
Default settings: Lineart, Flatbed, 100dpi.
--extend-lamp-timeout[=yes|no]
Extend lamp timeout period. no = 15 minutes, yes = 1 hour. (Default: no)
--wait-for-button[=yes|no]
Wait for button press before scanning starts. (Default: no)
--preview[=yes|no]
Request a preview-quality scan. (Default: no)
--hide-eop-pixel[=yes|no]
Hide end-of-page indicator pixels and overwrite with color of next neighbor pixels. (Default:
yes)
The scanner uses the last pixel in every scan line for storing the end-of-page status. This is
needed to detect the end of the document sheet when the automatic document feeder (ADF) is used.
Unfortunately the end-of-page pixels are also generated in flatbed scans. It is recommended to
hide these pixels.
--trailing-lines-mode mode
Filling mode of trailing lines after end of page when automatic document feeder (ADF) is used.
mode must be one of: “last”, “raw”, “raster”, “white”, “black”, “color”. (Default: “last”)
• “last” = repeat the last scan line (recommended),
• “raw” = read raw scan data (not recommended),
• “raster” = generate black and white pixel pattern,
• “white” = white pixels,
• “black” = black pixels,
• “color” = RGB or gray colored pixels (see next option).
--trailing-lines-color n
Set color value for filling trailing scan lines in trailing lines mode “color” (see previous op‐
tion). (Default color: violet)
The RGB color value must be specified and calculated as 65536 * r + 256 * g + b, with r, g, b be‐
ing values in the range of 0 .. 255.
READ OUT OPTIONS
The following options allow reading out the button state, counter value, color setting, and the state of
document in ADF. This can be used to programmatically control corresponding scanner options like switch‐
ing between flatbed and ADF mode, or triggering post processing tasks after scanning.
--button-pressed
Get the id of the last button pressed. Id is one of “none”, “power”, “scan”, “collect”, “file”,
“email”, “copy”, “up”, “down”, “mode”, “cancel”.
The scanner stores the id of the last button pressed until it is read. After read out, the state
is reset and subsequent readings will return “none”.
--color-led
Get the state of the color LED indicators. The state is either “color” or “black_white”.
--counter-value
Get the counter value as shown on LCD. The value is in the range of 1 .. 99.
--doc-in-adf
Get the state of the document-available indicator of the automatic document feeder (ADF). The
state is either “yes” or “no”.
HINTS FOR USERS OF SCANBD
scanbd(8) is a scanner button daemon, which can read scanner buttons and trigger scan actions.
Do not use the old scanbuttond(8) interface with hp5590. It is outdated and shall not be used any more.
The regular interface of scanbd(8) is fully supported by the current version of the hp5590 backend.
This example shows a minimum configuration file and the corresponding script file for scanbd(8) to be in‐
cluded in scanbd.conf.
• hp5590.conf
device hp5590 {
# Device matching
filter = "^hp5590.*"
desc = "HP5590 Scanner Family"
# Read out counter value and store in environment variable.
function function_lcd_counter {
filter = "^counter-value.*"
desc = "hp5590: LCD counter"
env = "SCANBD_FUNCTION_LCD_COUNTER"
}
# Run scan script when button is pressed.
action do-scan {
filter = "^button-pressed.*"
desc = "hp5590: Scan button pressed"
script = "scan_action.script"
string-trigger {
from-value = "none"
to-value = "scan"
}
}
}
• scan_action.script
#!/bin/bash
echo device = $SCANBD_DEVICE
echo action = $SCANBD_ACTION
echo counter = $SCANBD_FUNCTION_LCD_COUNTER
scanfile="$HOME/tmp/scans/scan-$(date +%s).pnm"
case $SCANBD_ACTION in
do-scan)
scanimage -d "$SCANBD_DEVICE" > "$scanfile"
;;
*)
echo Warning: Unknown scanbd action: "$SCANBD_ACTION"
;;
esac
FILES
@LIBDIR@/libsane-hp5590.a
The static library implementing this backend.
@LIBDIR@/libsane-hp5590.so
The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug lev‐
el for this backend.
SANE_DEBUG_HP5590
Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output:
10 - generic processing
20 - verbose backend messages
40 - HP5590 high-level commands
50 - HP5590 low-level (USB-in-USB) commands
Example:
export SANE_DEBUG_HP5590=50
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-usb(5) scanbd(8), scanimage(1), xscanimage(1), xsane(1)
AUTHORS
Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>.
13 Jul 2008 sane-hp5590(5)