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  <info>
    <title xml:id="scannerdrake-ti1">Set up scanner</title>
    <subtitle>scannerdrake</subtitle>
  </info>



  <section xml:id="scannerinstallation">
    <info>
      <title xml:id="scannerinstallation-ti1">Installation</title>
    </info>

    <para>This tool <footnote>
        <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing
        <emphasis>scannerdrake</emphasis> as root.</para>
      </footnote> allows you to configure a single scanner device or a
    multifunction device which includes scanning. It also allows you to
    share local devices connected to this computer with a remote computer
    or to access remote scanners.</para>

    <para>When you start this tool for the first time, you may get the
    following message:</para>

    <para><emphasis>"SANE packages need to be installed to use
    scanners</emphasis></para>

    <para><emphasis>Do you want to install the SANE
    packages?"</emphasis></para>

    <para>Choose <emphasis>Yes</emphasis> to continue. It will install
    <code>scanner-gui</code> and <code>task-scanning</code> if they are not
    yet installed.</para>

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    <para>If your scanner is identified correctly, so if in the above screen
    you see the name of your scanner, the scanner is ready for use with, for
    instance, <emphasis>XSane</emphasis> or <emphasis>Simple
    Scan</emphasis>.</para>

    <para>In that case, you might now want to want to configure the <emphasis>Scanner
    sharing</emphasis> option. You can read about it in the <xref linkend="scannersharing"/>.</para>

    
    <para>However, if your scanner hasn't been correctly identified, and
    checking its cable(s) and power switch and then pressing <emphasis>Search
    for new scanners</emphasis> doesn't help, you'll need to press
    <emphasis>Add a scanner manually</emphasis>.</para>

    <para>Choose the brand of your scanner in the list you see, then its type
    from the list for that brand and click <emphasis>Ok</emphasis></para>

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    <note>
      <para>If you can't find your scanner in the list, then click
      <emphasis>Cancel</emphasis></para>

      <para>Please check whether your scanner is supported on the <link
      xlink:href="http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html">SANE:
      Supported Devices</link> page and ask for help in the <link
      xlink:href="http://forums.mageia.org/en/">forums</link>.</para>
    </note>

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<info>
      <title xml:id="choosescannerport-ti1">Choose port</title>
    </info>
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    <para>You can leave this setting to <emphasis>Auto-detect available
    ports</emphasis> unless your scanner's interface is a parallel port. In
    that case, select <emphasis>/dev/parport0</emphasis> if you have only
    one.</para>

    <para>After clicking <emphasis>Ok</emphasis>, in most cases you will see a
    screen similar to the one below.</para>
<para>If you don't get that screen, then please read the <xref linkend="scannerextrasteps"/>.</para>

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  <section xml:id="scannersharing">
    <info>
      <title xml:id="scannersharing-ti2">Scannersharing</title>
    </info>

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    <para>Here you can choose whether the scanners connected to this machine
    should be accessible by remote machines and by which remote machines. You
    can also decide here whether scanners on remote machines should be made
    available on this machine.</para>

    <para>Scanner sharing to hosts : name or IP address of hosts can be added
    or deleted from the list of hosts allowed to access the local device(s),
    on this computer.</para>

    <para>Usage of remote scanners : name or IP address of hosts can added or
    deleted from the list of hosts which give access to a remote
    scanner.</para>

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    <para>Scanner sharing to hosts: you can add host.</para>

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    <para>Scanner sharing to hosts: specify which host(s) to add, or allow all
    remote machines.</para>

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    <para>"All remote machines" are allowed to access the local
    scanner.</para>

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    <para>If the package <emphasis>saned</emphasis> is not yet installed, the
    tool offers to do it.</para>

    <para>At the end, the tool will alter these files:</para>

    <para><emphasis>/etc/sane.d/saned.conf</emphasis></para>

    <para><emphasis>/etc/sane.d/net.conf</emphasis></para>

    <para><emphasis>/etc/sane.d/dll.conf </emphasis>to add or comment the
    directive "net"</para>

    <para>It will also configure <emphasis>saned</emphasis> and
    <emphasis>xinetd</emphasis> to be started on boot.</para>
  </section>

<section xml:id="scannerspecifics">
    <info>
      <title xml:id="scannerspecifics-ti2">Specifics</title>
    </info>  


    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Hewlett-Packard</para>

        <para>Most HP scanners are managed from <emphasis>HP Device
        Manager</emphasis> (hplip) which also manages printers. In this case,
        this tool does not allow you to configure it and invites you to use
        <emphasis>HP Device Manager</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Epson</para>

        <para>Drivers are available from <link
        xlink:href="http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX">this
        page</link>. When indicated, you must install the
        <emphasis>iscan-data</emphasis> package first, then
        <emphasis>iscan</emphasis> (in this order). It is possible that the
        <emphasis>iscan</emphasis> package will generate a warning about a
        conflict with <emphasis>sane</emphasis>. Users have reported that this
        warning can be ignored.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

</section>

<section xml:id="scannerextrasteps">
    <info>
      <title xml:id="scannerextrasteps-ti1">Extra installation steps</title>
    </info>  

    <para>It is possible that after selecting a port for your scanner in the <xref linkend="choosescannerport"/> screen, you need to take one or more extra steps to correctly configure your scanner.</para>

<itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
<para>In some cases, you're told the scanner needs its firmware to be uploaded each time it is started. This tool
    allows you to load it into the device, after you installed it on your system. In this screen you can install the firmware from a CD or a Windows installation, or install the one you downloaded from an Internet site of the vendor.</para><para>
    When your device's firmware needs to be loaded, it can take a long time at each first
    usage, possibly more than one minute. So be patient.</para>
</listitem>

      <listitem>
<para>Also, you may get a screen telling you to adjust the <emphasis>/etc/sane.d/"name_of_your_SANE_backend".conf file.</emphasis> </para>
      </listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Read those or other instructions you get carefully and if you don't know what to do,
    feel free to ask for help in the <link
    xlink:href="http://forums.mageia.org/en/">forums</link>.</para>
</listitem>

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