Button support is one of the weak parts of sane. The button options exposed by the fujitsu backend (and most others) are read-only. They can be 'polled' periodically by a front-end program, which will then activate the appropriate command to perform the requested action. They cannot be used directly. Unfortunately, there is not a good general-purpose polling frontend yet written, though there is a good start in our old experimental tree.
allan On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Arthur Hebert <arthur at evcl.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup SANE to work with my Fujitsu fi-6130 scanner. How do I use SANE > to work with my scanner's "Scan" button? The regular command, > >> scanimage --format tiff > foo.tiff > > works as expected. However, the command > >> scanimage --format tiff --scan=yes > foo.tiff > > results in the error > >> scanimage: unrecognized option `--scan=yes' > > > My system is Mac OS X 10.5. The command scanimage --help produces output, > which includes awareness of the hardware sensors: > >> >> ... <snip> >> >> ? Sensors: >> ??? --top-edge[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Paper is pulled partly into adf >> ??? --a3-paper[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? A3 paper detected >> ??? --b4-paper[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? B4 paper detected >> ??? --a4-paper[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? A4 paper detected >> ??? --b5-paper[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? B5 paper detected >> ??? --page-loaded[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Page loaded >> ??? --omr-df[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? OMR or double feed detected >> ??? --cover-open[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Cover open >> ??? --power-save[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Scanner in power saving mode >> ??? --email[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Email button >> ??? --manual-feed[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Manual feed selected >> ??? --scan[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Scan button >> ??? --function <int> [0] [hardware] >> ??????? Function character on screen >> ??? --double-feed[=(yes|no)] [no] [hardware] >> ??????? Double feed detected >> ??? --error-code <int> [0] [hardware] >> ??????? Hardware error code >> ??? --skew-angle <int> [0] [hardware] >> ??????? Requires black background for scanning >> >> Type ``scanimage --help -d DEVICE'' to get list of all options for DEVICE. >> >> List of available devices: >> ??? fujitsu:fi-6130dj:90080 > > Thanks, > Arthur > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
