[sane-devel] Canon PIXMA MX725: ADF scan duplex and automatic recognition of number of pages

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Timo,

First, we should enable your Ubuntu system to scan via flatbed, adf
simple and adf duplex. Sorry, I have no experiences scanning adf pages
from scanimage in batch mode. Therefore we should start using gsan2pdf.

Maybe somebody on the list can provide running scanimage batch mode
calls for pixma scanners using adf simple and adf duplex.

To make sure using the most recent version you should install SANE from
my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git . OK,
you can stay using your self compiled version on Ubuntu, if you followed
the installation instructions from INSTALL.linux.

The ppa should also provide the recent SANE version for your rasp pi
(armhf or arm64; the packet manager should select the correct version).

OK, after installing (and removing a cruddy self compiled version: $
sudo make uninstall) the most recent version of SANE, you can create a
logfile on a console with, e.g.:

$ SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11 gscan2pdf &> pixma.log

On your raspberry pi (and Ubuntu) you can use this corresponding command
for scanimage:

$ SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11 scanimage [options] &> pixma.log

Maybe we need to debug and fix some issues on your Ubuntu machine first.

Second, if all scan types are running with gscan2pdf we can find a
working scanimage command which then can be simply adapted into your
raspberry pi.

Please provide the logfile of a failed scan in an archive, e.g. tar.gz,
zip or 7z.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Rolf




Am 01.08.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Timo Ziegler:
> Hi Rolf,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> I am using scanimage on my raspberry pi without any GUI.
> Now I tried scanning via my ubuntu desktop system, but the document is
> just stopping in the ADF and the MX725 wants that I press OK to get
> the document back. I already tried to reinstall sane and the pixma
> backend (sane via apt-get remove and the pixma backend by checking out
> via git and compiling again). Same result.
>
> Is there maybe a way to debug my problem via console on the raspberry
> pi, since the scanning there is working, just no ADF Duplex and batch
> without providing the number of pages?
>
> Best regards
> Timo
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> *Betreff:* Re: [sane-devel] Canon PIXMA MX725: ADF scan duplex and
> automatic recognition of number of pages
> *Datum:* Tue, 1 Aug 2017 20:47:11 +0200
> *Von:* Rolf Bensch
> *An:* Timo Ziegler
>> Hi Timo,
>>
>> I prefer gscan2pdf for multi page adf scans.
>>
>> Please report if your problem also occurs with gscan2pdf.
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rolf
>>
>>
>> Am 29.07.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Timo Ziegler:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got my MX725 running with scanimage on sane-pixma backend.
>>>
>>> My last problems are that I can't scan in duplex mode via ADF and that
>>> a ADF batch scan tries to scan another page after all pages are gone
>>> from the ADF and then just gets stuck (need to use Ctrl + C once or
>>> twice).
>>>
>>> To scan in duplex mode, I tried the following options:
>>> --ScanMode=Duplex => unrecognized option "--ScanMode"
>>> --source="ADFDUP"
>>> --source="Automatic Document Feeder(left align,duplex)
>>> --source="Automatic Document Feeder(left align,Duplex)
>>> and maybe some variations more => setting of option --source failed
>>> (Invalid argument)
>>>
>>>
>>> To scan "infinity pages, incrementing by 1, numbering from 1", I just
>>> used --batch and scanned.
>>> It's successfully scanning all the pages + tried to scan a next one
>>> after the ADF runs out of pages to scan.
>>> // Scanning page 1
>>> // Scanned page 1. (scanner status = 5)
>>> // Scanning page 2
>>>
>>> Then nothing happens anymore. When I press Ctrl + C, it tries to
>>> // scanimage: received signal 2
>>> // scanimage: trying to stop scanner
>>>
>>> Nothing happens, so I press Ctrl + C again
>>> // scanimage: received signal 2
>>> // scanimage: aborting
>>>
>>> Scanning via --batch --batch-number=2 works fine, but I want to use
>>> scanbuttond later so I don't want to set the number of pages every time.
>>>
>>> I tried using --adf-wait=3 but this option is not recognized. It's not
>>> listed in scanimage -A, but I found it in the online pixma-backend
>>> documentation.
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope, somebody can give a hint.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Timo
>

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