[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V39 support with SANE

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 6:22 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi SANE community and developers,
>
> I am here on Debian/unstable AMD64 with SANE v1.1.1 and have
> sane-utils plus sane-airscan version 0.99.27-1 installed
>
> Two scanners are out of interest to me for archiving important documents
> as PDF.
>
> 1. Epson Perfection V39
> 2. Canon LiDE 300
>
> [1] and [2] says:
>
> Model || Interface || USB id || Status || Comment || Backend || Manpage
>
> ============================================================================================================
> Perfection V39 || USB || 0x04b8/0x013d || Unsupported || supported by
> the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter || epson2 || sane-epson2
>
> ============================================================================================================
> CanoScan LiDE 300 || USB || 0x04a9/0x1913 || Complete All resolutions
> supported (up to 2400DPI) || pixma (0.28.6) || sane-pixma
>
> So the Canon LiDE 300 seems to work OOTB (out-of-the-box)?
>
> In regards to the Epson V39 scanner which is my favorite (higher
> resolution 4.800x4800 and looks more compact in size):
> What does "supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter" mean?
>

I think that's a bit confusing TBH. It seems like Epson support this with a
proprietary driver.
You should go to Epson's website and download their Scanning Driver package.

Cheers,
Ralph
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