[sane-devel] epson 4180 epkowa

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Mickael Profeta <mike@alezan.org> writes:

> I would like to use scanimage with my epson 4180.
> It is supported by epkowa backend, and iscan works. But I would like
> to do some scans on command line, without any gui, is it possible?

The epkowa backend included with iscan is a regular SANE backend and
should be usable with any SANE frontend.

> scanimage -L return nothing and

Don't know what's wrong here.

> mike@fjord:~$ scanimage -d epson:libusb:004:003
> scanimage: open of device epson:libusb:004:003 failed: Invalid argument

Have you tried with epkowa instead of epson?  That is, have you tried

  $ scanimage -d epkowa:libusb:004:003

> Hope it is possible to do command line scan with that scanner,

Hope this helps,
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