[sane-devel] SANE vs. Epson backends

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi, I got my Epson Perfection 1250 working with SANE well and the Xsane 
back end. I never did get iscan working. It still says it can't find a 
scanner.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> Thus spoke Henning Meier-Geinitz
> > Then you didn't use the SANE backend, because the SANE epson backend
> > does not support that scanner. Unfortunaly, the backend made by Epson
> > is also called "epson".
> 
> Okay, now I'm confused here.  I have both SANE and iscan installed.  If I
> add the appropriate device to the epson.conf file, QuiteInsane and XSane
> find the scanner.  If I add it to plustek instead, neither finds the scanner.
> 
> The scanner is an Epson Perfection 1260.
> 
> Does this mean that all my front ends are using the ImageScan backend then?
> 
> Is there a way to (at least temporarily) switch between the ImageScan backend
> and the official SANE Epson (re: Plustek) backend?  I need to do this in order
> to do some comparisons for an article I'm writing.  I want to make sure I'm
> looking at the right thing for each frontend I review.  Is the SANE backend
> preferrable to the ImageScan backend?  If so, what are the reasons for the
> preference?
> 
> PS:
> I just noticed that libsane-epson.so is a symlink to libsane-epsonkw.so.1.0.6.
> Maybe if I just moved the libsane-epson* files out of /usr/lib/sane, that
> would force the front ends to use the plustek driver instead - yes? 
> 
> 

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