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Original Snapscan Homepage

This page provides information on the SnapScan Backend for SANE. This driver is compatible with a wide range of scanners from Afga, Acer, and Vuego. 

Neither Acer or Vuego provided any documentation on how to have those scanners working. Indeed, they did not even bother to give any answer to our emails on this subject. For those reasons, it's difficult to support those scanners and we can't guarantee that your model will work.

Update: Agfa has released the specs for their older SCSI scanner models. This will hopefully allow us to provide some features that until now didn't work.

If you plan to buy a scanner, we suggest that you buy a model from a vendor providing his specifications. 

We used information provided by many existing web site to try to create an exhaustive page. Thanks to the original authors. 

Supported Scanners

Getting it working

To install the newest version of snapscan bakend, you have to:

1. get latest sane sources from SANE homepage
2. get latest snapscan sources from Snapscan download
3. untar sane sources

tar xvzf sane-x.x.x.tar.gz

4. move in the backend directory

cd sane-x.x.x/backend

5. untar snapscan sources

tar xvzf ../../snapscan-x.x.tar.gz

(this will overwrite snapscan* files)
6. as root, compile and install sane

machine# cd sane-x.x.x; ./configure; make; make install

7. detect your scanner device

machine# tools/find-scanner
   find-scanner: found scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.20" at device
   /dev/XXXXX 

8. if you want your scanner to be recognized easily, create a link:

machine# ln -s /dev/XXXXX /dev/scanner

9. you should now scan using xscanimage

machine$ xscanimage

USB scanners

You also need to create a device if it does not exist :

mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48

The bin file can be found in the windows drivers coming with your scanner. To install the new firmware, you need to launch one of agfafirm or acerfirm perl scripts. This must be done each time you reboot your scanner.

acerfirm /dev/usbscanner u34v101.bin

Update:

Starting with release snapscan-20010909 the driver will try an automatic firmware upload for USB scanners. To achieve this a new line in the configuration file 'snapscan.conf' is required. It should start with 'firmware' and contain the fully qualified path to your firmware file, e.g.

firmware /path/to/my/firmware.bin

Known problems

• My snapscan model is not recognized 


"export SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=2" to see error messages. If you get this message:

"XXX YYY" is not one of AGFA SnapScan 300, 310, 600 or 1236s, Acer
VUEGO 300f, 310S, 610S, or 610plus, Acer PRISA model 620S

please submit XXX YYY and your scanner model number to the bug system so we can add it to the driver.
 
• Only the top of my scan is looking fine. There is noise on the rest of it. (reported scanners: Acer 320U ...) 


Please report your scanner model so we can suggest you a modification. If you are not afraid of C code, you can search in backend/snapscan.c and backend/snapscan-scsi.c for "ACER300F" and add your model in the if test; then please send a report so we can make a definitive change.

For any other problem, make sure you have read SANE FAQ then fill a bug. Please try to supply important information like: Vendor, Model, sane version, snapscan version, detailed description of the problem...