[sane-devel] SANE needs a GUI like CUPS's 'system-config-printer' to manually add a network scanner.

[Hans Deragon]

Greetings Alex,

> There is program named xsane that could help you.

It does not help.  It aborts because it does not found a scanner I use 
occasionally, when I am at my friend's house, and it does not find my 
scanner, which I am able to ping to and access to from another computer.

> If you use an HP multifunction printer you can configure it from
> system-config-printer and you scanner feature will automatically work.

Nope, that is not the case.  system-config-printer is only for the 
printer side of a MFC device.  I can print to my MFC, but I cannot scan 
it.  As a scanner, it does not exists and I have no means to add it 
manually to Linux.

Merci,
Hans Deragon


On 2017-11-07 05:04, Alex ARNAUD wrote:

> Hello Hans,
> 
> There is program named xsane that could help you.
> 
> If you use an HP multifunction printer you can configure it from
> system-config-printer and you scanner feature will automatically work.
> 
> Best regards.
> --
> Alex ARNAUD
> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
> 
> Le 05/11/2017 à 19:53, Hans Deragon a écrit :
> 
>> Greetings, I understand that saned is a daemon / API running in the 
>> backend, but I believe that like CUPS's 'system-config-printer', it 
>> should come with a frontend to manage scanners. I have a network 
>> (wifi) scanner setup properly. One of my Linux machine (a desktop 
>> computer) connects to it without any issue. I have setup that machine 
>> with hplip. However, another Linux laptop cannot find it on the 
>> network. I know its IP and I can ping it, figure out the ports that 
>> are open, but there is no GUI to add a scanner. In fact, I cannot even 
>> figure out how to add this scanner via the terminal. Searching for any 
>> reference to it under /etc on the desktop machine for which it works 
>> returns nothing. I have no clue where the scanner is configured on 
>> that machine so I can copy the configuration on the laptop. The 
>> scanner is part of my MFC "HP Officejet Pro 6978 All-in-one". hplip 
>> requires me to set it up (again!) with a USB cable. But this device is 
>> already setup and I should not have to plug as USB cable to it and 
>> reconfigure it. I should just be able to find it on the network and go 
>> on with it, or at least, add it manually via a GUI. Has this issue 
>> already been discussed? BTW, I am new to this mailing list and I have 
>> no history regarding the SANE project; I am just a simple user. Best 
>> regards, Hans Deragon