There exist backends for Microtek scanners with SCSI command set. Refer to sane-microtek (5) and sane-microtek2 (5) for details.

There also exists a Microtek 3600 series driver, see sane-sm3600 (5) for details.

At present, the following scanners are known positively to work with this backend:

Vendor Product ID: Remark:
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Microtek ScanMaker 3840 All modes OK
Microtek ScanMaker 4800 All modes OK

If you own a Microtek scanner with the SCAN08 chip other than the ones listed above, it may or may not work with SANE. Feel free to contact the backend author ( earle@ziplabel.com ) to report results with scanners not on the list.

The following options are supported by the sane-sm3840 driver:

--mode color|gray|lineart|halftone Color or grayscale mode.

--resolution 150|300|600|1200 Pixels per inch for scans.

--depth 8|16 Note that the least significant bits of 16bpp mode may be noise.

--brightness 1..4096 Higher numbers increase brightness of returned image.

--contrast 0.1..9.9 Larger numbers decrease contrast of returned image.

--lamp-timeout 1..15 Time in minutes until the lamp is turned off after a scan.

@LIBDIR@/libsane-sm3840.a The static library implementing this backend.

@LIBDIR@/libsane-sm3840.so The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).

SANE_DEBUG_SM3840 If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller levels reduce verbosity. To see error messages on stderr set SANE_DEBUG_SM3840 to 1.

http://www.ziplabel.com/sm3840