airscan-discover(1)

airscan-discover1

Discover sane-airscan compatible scanners

Usage

airscan-discover [options]

Overview

airscan-discover is a command-line tool to find eSCL and WSD scanners on a local network

It uses Avahi to discover DNS-SD devices and its own implementation of WS-Discovery to discover WSD devices.

On success, it outputs a fragment of sane-airscan configuration file, that can be directly added to /etc/sane.d/airscan.conf

Options

-test-fast or --test-fast

Fast discovery mode (see sane-airscan(5) for details)

-test-auto or --test-auto

Automatic protocol selection (see sane-airscan(5) for details)

-d

Print debug messages to console

-t

Write a very detailed protocol trace to airscan-discover-zeroconf.log and airscan-discover-zeroconf.tar

-h

Print help screen

Files

airscan-discover-zeroconf.log

Protocol trace

airscan-discover-zeroconf.tar

Non-textual messages, if any, saved here. Textual (i.e., XML) messages included directly into the .log file

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11–12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

--test-auto since Debian 13 (Trixie); --test-fast since Debian 13 (Trixie); -test-auto since Debian 13 (Trixie); -test-fast since Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Alexander Pevzner <[email protected]>

From sane-airscan 0.99.38-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.