Aldo- the options for paper size and scanning area are provided by the 'backend' which is a driver that talks to the scanner. scanimage is a 'frontend' which talks to you. try scanimage --help, which will tell the frontend to list all the options the backend provides.
allan On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Aldo wrote: > Hi, > > I am vision impaired and I can only use the console under Gnu/Linux. > I've tried to scan, doing: > scanimage -v --format tiff >outputfile.tif > > It works but the scanner only picks a portion of 248x256 pixels at > 24-bit, while there is no any option mentionned in the man page to tell > scanimage that it is a full (A4) page. > > Someone an idea? > > Info: > distribution is Debian Sarge, > with libsane and sane-utils (sufficient to scan uner commandline), > v. 1.0.15-9 > And scanner is CanoScan LiDE20. > > My partner hadn't tested under xsane yet, due to the discussion here > about "broken" driver; > I'm temporarily doing tests from the console. > > Aldo. > > > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
