sane-sp15c5

Overview

The sane-sp15c library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend which provides access to the Fujitsu flatbed scanners. At present, the following scanner is known to work with these backend:

Vendor:  Model:           Rev:
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FCPA     ScanPartner 15C  1.01

The ScanPartner 15C driver supports lineart (1-bit), halftone (1-bit), grayscale (4-bit and 8-bit), and color (3 x 8-bit) scanning.

Other scanners in these families may work. The ScanPartner 15C seems to be a repackaging of the ScanPartner 600C. People are encouraged to try these driver with the other scanners and to contact the author with test results.

Configuration

A modest effort has been made to expose the standard options to the API. This allows frontends such as xscanimage(1) to set scanning region, resolution, bit-depth (and color), and enable the automatic document feeder.

Limitations

Testing limited to a Linux 2.2.5 kernel
Can't quite get the scan page/minute performance in ADF modes. This may be due to limited system buffer size.