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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 00:27 -0400, Terry Spearman wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText">Hi Olaf,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">Yes, I tried running scanimage -L when logged on as root with the same result i.e. "No scanners were identified...."<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">Since my original post I made an observation which may or may not be relevant. From the Centos 7.0 man page for plustek, <a href="https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/5/sane-plustek/">https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/5/sane-plustek/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">"FILES<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">/etc/sane.d/plustek.conf<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">The backend configuration file<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-plustek.a<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">The static library implementing this backend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-plustek.so<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading)."<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">On my system I'm seeing /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf but /usr/lib64/sane is empty. I've seen something somewhere that says if sane-find-scanner finds the scanner but scanimage -L does not it means that you don't have the right backend for the scanner installed. Could a missing library file be the culprit?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If /usr/lib64/sane is empty you probbly don;t have sane-backends-drivers-scanners installed: yum install sane-backends-drivers-scanners should solve your problem....</div><div><br></div><div>BR, Louis</div></body></html>