<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well noting yet. Any reason to think that using the proprietary software that comes with a Fujitsu scanner "ScanSnap.app" might do something that interferes with SANE. (I'm suspect SANE is their underlying engine)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are and have been able to scan using ScanSnap, and for a brief moment yesterday we were <i class="">also</i> able to run `scanimage` and save a .pnm</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 7, 2021, at 12:05 PM, m. allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com" class="">kitno455@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Unknown- look for OSX system logs that might include USB related errors.<br class=""><br class="">allan<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:09 PM Media Mouth <<a href="mailto:communque@gmail.com" class="">communque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">So we're apparently back to the original question...<br class=""><br class="">"Re: [sane-devel] scanimage -L detects no scanners / sane-find-scanner does -- on MacOS"<br class=""><br class="">`sane-find-scanner` returns `found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [Fujitsu], product=0x132b [ScanSnap iX500]) at libusb:000:002`<br class="">and<br class="">`scanimage -L` returns `No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different` etc.<br class=""><br class="">It was after your request for the stdout of `SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=50 SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_CONFIG=10 scanimage -L`<br class="">that it suddenly started working, so I wondered if by some magic that was waking something up, but running it again made not difference this go around.<br class=""><br class="">Any ideas?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On May 7, 2021, at 6:26 AM, MediaMouth <<a href="mailto:communque@gmail.com" class="">communque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">It did ... and then it didn't. Right after successfully scanning a page, subsequent attempts, using the same command, failed with error "invalid argument".<br class=""><br class="">On May 7, 2021, at 05:14, m. allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com" class="">kitno455@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">"device `fujitsu:ScanSnap iX500:330189' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 scanner"<br class=""><br class="">looks like it works?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">"well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge<br class="">of my hand"<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>