<div dir="ltr"><div>Nether are scanimage, which is a command-line only program. That said...</div><div><br></div><div>...I think things are just going to work. If you have a printed photo of your pet available to use as a test scan, put it in the scanner now. Then from the Terminal:</div><div><br></div><div>scanimage --format=png -o ~/Desktop/test.png</div><div><br></div><div>If things work out, your scanner will scan the pic and then put the result on your desktop as a PNG file.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM Joe Zeff <<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 6/25/26 2:26 PM, Kelly Price wrote:<br>
> I think the goal here is first to get scanimage to work using the SANE <br>
> drivers. Once that does, Xscan and Xsane will follow.<br>
> <br>
> So make sure you installed scanimage and if your distro has sane- <br>
> backends, install that as well (it should have if your distro's package <br>
> manager handles dependencies).<br>
<br>
What I have installed and on my menu are ScanGear and XSane. Which one <br>
is scanimage? Fedora has sane-backends and they're already installed. <br>
As far as working in a Terminal, I was using C/PM and MS-DOS before they <br>
had gooies. And, I've used scanners many times but never had this much <br>
trouble setting one up. Here's the list of devices:<br>
<br>
List of available devices:<br>
pixma:04A91158 canon_pixma:libusb:002:002<br>
airscan:e0:Canon TS3700 series (USB)<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price<br><a href="http://redwolf.ws" target="_blank">http://redwolf.ws</a></div>