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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I was able to get this working by moving the scanimage command to the SCAN.SH script, and then doing my OCR processing and network transfer in the background. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:bcdown84@gmail.com">Brian</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:56 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net">sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Sane and scanbd</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If there are any contributors to the project here, firstly I would like to say thanks! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope someone can help with my problem…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I setup scanbd to run a script with the following command, the scanner isn’t found:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SCAN.SH<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sh /home/pi/scripts/scanconvert.sh &<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I run SCAN.SH myself – no problem. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I put the commands from scanconvert.sh into scan.sh – no problem<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As soon as I pass the job of scanning to the background task using &, the scanimage command can’t see the scanner. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brian<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>