[sane-devel] Out of Memory Error

[Thierry HUCHARD]

Le 2020-09-30 14:27, Mick Sulley a écrit :
> Recently did a clean install of Mint20
> 
> I installed XSane, it scanned for devices and found my scanner,
> Brother DCP-J7720W which is wireless connected, and I scanned my
> document.  It appeared to scan but the viewer screen shows nothing and
> if I try to save the file I get
> "Error during save: out of memory"
> 
> Memory really should not be a problem, 16GB RAM showing 30% used,
> 100GB free on disk.
> 
> Other information
> 
> Document Scanner works and I can save the file.
> 
> Installed gscan2pdf, when I scan I get an error "gscan2pdf:
> sane_start: Invalid argument"
> 
> mick at Mint20Desk:~$ scanimage -L
> device `escl:http://192.168.1.94:80' is a ESCL Brother DCP-J772DW
> flatbed scanner
> mick at Mint20Desk:~$ scanimage -T
> Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
> Capability : [(null)]
> Capability : [image/jpeg]
> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 0 to 0
> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 0 to 0
> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> mick at Mint20Desk:~$ scanimage > image.pnm
> Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
> Capability : [(null)]
> Capability : [image/jpeg]
> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 0 to 0
> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 0 to 0
> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> mick at Mint20Desk:~$
> 
> So it looks to me like sane_start is the problem, but I don't know
> what to do about it.
> 
> Can anyone help please?
> 
Hi Mick,
Your version of sane is obselete! Update it!

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-git
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt install libsane libsane-common sane-utils

Thierry
> Thanks
> 
> Mick