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tiffscan is an advanced SANE frontend. It has batch mode capabilities and
can generate compressed multi-page TIFF files. It handles from black and
white to 16 bit RBG+infrared scans.

tiffscan is Copyright (C) 2007 by Alessandro Zummo
and is released under the GPL, version 2.

Manual-By-Example
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To obtain help:
 tiffscan --help

To list known devices:
 tiffscan --list-devices

To list backend-specific options:
 tiffscan --device .... --help

Simple scan:
 tiffscan --device .... --scan

Batch scan:
 tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --paper a4

Batch scan to a single, compressed, multi-page TIFF file
 tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --compress --multi-page

Batch scan, prompt before each page
 tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --batch-prompt

Batch scan to an user-defined file series:
 tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --output-file my-scanned-page-%04d.tif

Advanced usage examples (coolscan2 device):

 tiffscan --device ... --load
 tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb
 tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb --depth=12
 tiffscan --device ... --eject


Infrared scanning 
(requires experimental coolscan3 driver):

 tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb --depth=12 --infrared=yes

Once the infrared image is obtained, you can use Ed Hamrick's Vuescan
to do cleaning and restoring.


Automatic batch scanning from slide autoloader
(requires experimental coolscan3 driver) or SANE Evolution:

 tiffscan --device ... --scan --batch --autofocus=yes --ae-wb=yes --autoload=yes


This should be enough to start using tiffscan. If you have any
question, please write me at a.zummo@towertech.it.