[sane-devel] Need help with Canon scanner

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Alan,

This time with one 'l'.

'scanimage -h' shows all options of your scanner, if you scanner has
been switched to "Remote Scanner" mode before. Some options come from
the backend and are not described in the doc of scanimage. Please read
the manpage of the Pixma backend: 'man sane-pixma' and note that button
scan isn't supported for your scanner.

Alternatively to scanimage I'm using xsane as gui frontend.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Rolf


Am 22.08.2015 um 16:08 schrieb Alan McConnell:
> ! ! ! !
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:05:20PM +0200, Rolf Bensch wrote:
>> Hi Allan,
> 	<G>  You're thinking of Mr Noah.  I'm a one-L Alan.
> 
>> Did you install Sane from sources before? It seems so. Please remove all
>> libsane.so.1.0.24 files from /usr/local/lib/ and reinstall Sane with
>> 'sudo make install' and go ahead with 3.1.
>   	  All done.
> 
>> You can jump over 3.2.
>        There is a symlink pointing nowhere there?  ?  ?
> 
>> Please check the version with 'scanimage -V'. You should get:
>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.25git; backend version 1.0.25
>   	 Exactly what I got.
> 
>> Please read your scanners manual. You need to set your scanner into
>> "Remote Scanner" mode before you can use any PC program to scan.
>   	I _did_ read it, and discovered that after I toggled to
> 	"Remote Scanner" I then had to press the OK button.  That
> 	was what settled things.  For my scanner now 'works'.
> 	The command 'scanimge > test ' took a while to execute,
> 	which is not surprising, since it yielded a 
> 	       Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data
> 	file of size 1683875.  I took several images, a couple of
> 	elaborately colored ads of the beauties of Japan, and
> 	the images showed up gorgeously.  The physical
> 	Canon I have certainly is a fine piece of equipment.
> 
>> Hope this helps.
>          It certainly does/did!   RTFM! and now that I've done
> 	 so, and pressed the OK button, things seem to be working.
> 
> 	 I've got to find out how to do B&W scans, which means 
> 	 studying the man page for scanimage.  I'll stick around
> 	 this E-list for a while, just in case I have further
> 	 questions I can't solve by myself.
> 
> Herr Bensch, bitte nehme Sie meinen tiefsten Dank an! wegen Ihres
> Wissen und, vor allem, Ihrer Geduld!!
> 
> Alan
>