--- sane-backends-1.0.4/doc/scanimage.man Fri Nov 24 14:33:22 2000 +++ sane-backends-1.0.4-caskey/doc/scanimage.man Sat Jun 2 05:29:43 2001 @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ .RB [ -T | --test ] .RB [ -v | --verbose ] .RB [ -V | --version ] +.RB [ --batch[=FORMAT] ] +.RB [ --batch-count=# ] +.RB [ --batch-start=# ] +.RB [ --batch-double ] +.RB [ --batch-increment ] .RI [ device-specific-options ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B scanimage @@ -118,6 +123,29 @@ print the program and package name, as well as the version number of the SANE distribution that it came with. +The +.B --batch-* +options provide the features for scanning documents using document +feeders. +.B --batch[=FORMAT] +is used to specify the format of the filename that each page will be +written to. Each page is written out to a single file. If the FORMAT +is not specified, the default of out%d.tif will be used. +FORMAT is given as a printf style string with one integer +parameter. +.B --batch-count=# +specifies the number of pages to attempt to scan. If not given, +scanimage will continue scanning until the scanner returns a state +other than OK. Not all scanners with document feeders signal when the +ADF is empty, use this command to work around them. +.B --batch-increment=# +You can change the amount that the number in the filename is incremented +by. Generally this is used for when you are scanning double-sided documents +on a single-sided document feeder. A specific command is provided to +aid this. +.B --batch-double +will automatically set the increment to 2. + As you might imagine, much of the power of .B scanimage comes from the fact that it can control any SANE backend. Thus, the @@ -280,7 +308,7 @@ .SH "SEE ALSO" xscanimage(1), xcam(1), xsane(1), sane\-dll(5), sane\-net(5), sane-"backendname"(5) .SH AUTHOR -David Mosberger, Andreas Beck, and Gordon Matzigkeit +David Mosberger, Andreas Beck, Gordon Matzigkeit and Caskey Dickson .SH BUGS For vector options, the help output currently has no indication as to how many elements a vector-value should have.