[sane-devel] how to configure/scan with an Epson Xp-4100 printer/scanner

[Marco Fioretti]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 20:40:22 PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> If you don't need the network support and are fine with Tesseract for
> OCR, imagescan is Free as in Freedom software.  IIRC, the README in
> those packages actually makes a point of these extensions or plugins
> being *optional* (at the possible expense of network support).

I confirm this, the README is very clear on that. As for "needing
network support"... I confess I don't know, can the list help me to figure it out?

I can attach that scanner either directly to a USB port of my desktop,
or to an USB port of my modem. My question is, if I attach it via USB
to the modem, would it still be reachable/usable from the rest of my
home network, AND: would it be usable with scanimage and similar
command line tools, as I do need to scan with them?

yes, I could also set it up to use wifi, of course, but I would rather
avoid it for several reasons, and in any case I could do it only if
there is no need of Windows for that. Is this possible?

Thanks again for all your support, and what you are helping me to learn

Marco
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