[sane-devel] Epson V600 Perfection Scanner

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Mono,

Monosij Dutta-Roy writes:

> Hi Olaf -
>
> Thank you for your email and help.
>
> Attached are the two logs: *sane.debug.127.log.1* and *sane.debug.127.log.2*.

Thanks.  From your logs, the epkowa backend is activated courtesy of
/etc/sane.d/dll.d/iscan, not /etc/sane.d/dll.d/epkowa.  Looks like I
mis-remembered :-(

 [dll] sane_init/read_dlld: considering /etc/sane.d/dll.d/iscan
 [dll] sane_init/read_config: reading dll.d/iscan
 [dll] add_backend: adding backend `epkowa'

When looking for the backend, only the architecture specific directory
is searched but the epkowa backend doesn't live there.  It still lives
in /usr/lib/sane, so the iscan-bundle from which you installed has not
been updated for multiarch :-(

 [dll] load: searching backend `epkowa' in `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane'
 [dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1'
 [dll] load: couldn't open `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' (No such file or directory)
 [dll] load: couldn't find backend `epkowa' (No such file or directory)

That's something that EPSON will have to fix but in the mean time, you
can work around this for your particular case by one of

 - moving the content of /usr/lib/sane to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
 - adding symbolic links from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane to files in
   /usr/lib/sane
 - adding /usr/lib/sane to /etc/ld.so.conf
 - adding /usr/lib/sane to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .profile
   i.e.  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sane

> On running the second command the Epson scanner was initialized - by the
> sounds generated.

Looks like the device was found by scanimage all right

 device `epkowa:interpreter:003:003' is a Epson Perfection V600 Photo flatbed scanner

> However, gscan2pdf still did not 'find' the scanner.

So let's have a look at what

 sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sane SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=HEX scanimage > /dev/null 2> log

produces.  This tries to scan with the default settings and discards all
the image data.  I'm only interested in the log ;-)

> Again, please note this has been happening since Ubuntu 17.10. Until 17.04
> all was fine. I have been clean installing OS and installing scanner
> drivers and then gscan2pdf worked fine.

Distributions keep changing things and it very much looks like the
iscan-bundle is not getting updated to follow suit :-(

> Looking forward to your reply in what may be needed to 'find' the scanner.

Hope this helps,
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