[sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

[m. allan noah]

Did you have wine running some scanner software at the time you tried
the tests with simplescan or xsane? Only one program can talk to the
scanner at a time.

allan

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Françoise Del Socorro
<waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you both,
>
> Indeed scanner works perfectly in command-line even after deleting (with
> Computer Janitor) iscan, imlib and iscan-plugin. (With Wine, they happen to
> be a software like Xsane, so Iscan is the driver + software pack that is
> only compatible with a few RPM distros, and libsane (plustek) + sane-utils
> (scanimage) is the driver + software pack compatible with DEB distros and
> perhaps also RPM.)
>
> But this scanner isn't working with graphical user interface softwares like
> simple-scan nor xsane because plustek is not selected, even if Xsane ask us
> to select it at start. So is there a way to load modules automatically into
> scanner softwares?
>
> And is there a way for it to work faster ? (or perhaps old scanners are >
> 180s/page)
>
> scanimage -d plustek --resolution 1200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test2.pnm
> -> more than 3min, huge size: 10 156 x 14 028 pixels, resized with GIMP.
> http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test2resized,2a6b0c074ff97182d246199ded9da370.jpg.html
> scanimage -d plustek --resolution 200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test200.pnm
> -> more than 2min, normal size: 1692 x 2338
> http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test200,819e4e0c0d2dea459993825b51266f9c.jpg.html
>
> Xsane: Failed to start scanner: Device busy
> export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; xsane
> [plustek] Available and supported devices:
> [plustek] Device: >libusb:006:002< - 0x04b8x0x010f
> [plustek] Device configuration:
> [plustek] device name  : >auto<
> [plustek] Device description for >0x04B8-0x010F< found.
> [plustek] Device WAF  : 0x00004002
> [plustek] Device Flags: 0x00000000
> [plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbff7ed9c, 0)
> [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16)
>
> Simple-scan: Failed to scan: Unable to start scan
> export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; simple-scan
> [plustek] sane_start
> [plustek] usbDev_open(libusb:006:002,) - (nil)
> [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16)
> [plustek] sane_start: open failed: 16
> ** (simple-scan:2356): WARNING **: Unable to start device: Device busy
>
> ________________________________
> De : Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de>
> À : sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc : Françoise Del Socorro <waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com>
> Envoyé le : Mar 22 mars 2011, 10h 42min 55s
> Objet : Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid
> 10.04
>
> Hi Françoise,
>
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 09:21:43 Françoise Del Socorro wrote:
> [...]
>> He did a small 202x150 pixels image with just the upper part of the paper
>> and mostly blank, he did not recognize where the paper was in the scanner
>> (it was in the middle as before), and he did not scan the entire document
>> table (as he did once when the paper was at the same place), since he only
>> have found 1/4 of it.
>
> that's perfect, as it's the default setting for scanimage.
> Either use a suitable frontend like xsane for adjusting the scan area
> or use the -x -y parameters for scanimage to enlarge the scan area.
> You might also adjust the resolution.
>
> "man scanimage" might be your friend.
>
> HTH
> Gerhard
>
>
>
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