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Hi,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-02-20 10:33 p.m., Andy Coleman
wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Will installing your
SW get this scanner going? I really don't want to install
unnecessary stuff.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If so, have you any
pointers to the necessary steps involved?</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I've ground to a halt
with the Ubunto forum.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Cheers Andy</font><br>
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Yes SANE does support the Canon LiDE 120.<br>
<br>
Scanning with SANE consists of two parts: the backend, which
provides support for a variety of dedicated scanners and
multi-function devices.<br>
The other part is the front end which provides access to that
functionality. <br>
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From the SANE project there is a command line utility scanimage and
there is also a graphical, interactive frontend called xsane.<br>
xsane is at version 0.999 and has not been updated in some time.
However, it is still used by most people and satisfies most
requirements.<br>
There are other frontends from elsewhere that support scanners
through the standard SANE interface.<br>
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The backend portion is currently at 1.0.29, although depending on
which Ubuntu you have, this will likely be something like 1.0.27 or
1.0.28.<br>
Enhancements to the backend mostly encompass the addition of newer
scanners and enhancement to existing supported devices.<br>
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To get the latest backend, you can use the Release PPA maintained by
Rolf Bensch. This provides builds from the latest release 1.0.29 and
supports back to Xenial (16.04).<br>
You can find that at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release">https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release</a><br>
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Rolf also maintains a cutting edge PPA here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git">https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git</a><br>
I just tried the scanner on that PPA and it seems to work fine. Bear
in mind, that it is on the cutting edge and bugs may creep in from
time to time.<br>
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If I were you, I would go for Rolf's Release PPA, and install xsane
(which depends on the libsane backend libraries so you get them
also).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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