[sane-devel] Plustek Optifilm 8200i SE

[r. a. schmied]

On 04/12/25 11:33, Fred wrote:
> I purchased a Plustek OptiFilm 8200i SE with the hopes of using it with Linux.
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> I've installed sane-backends 1.3.1.
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> Sane-find-scanner reports it as:
> found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3 [PLUSTEK INC], product=0x1825 [Film Scanner(A2M)], chip=GL128) at libusb:001:010
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> Scanimage finds nothing.
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> I'm not even sure what kernel modules should be loaded.
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> I'm willing to help try getting it to work within my abilities.
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> Fred
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aloha fred



you didn't provide much in way of knowing a) your system, os, version, 
etc b) your level of abilities and c) the sane related command lines
(complete) with all output that you have tried ...

but i will try to give you what guidance i can ...

1) $ sane-find-scanner might have suggested you try
       $ scanimage -L
    did you do that?  if so please report all the output (as well
    as the complete command line).
    also note that sane-find-scanner -v might provide even more insight
    where your system is looking for and finding the scanner.

    sane-find-scanner also suggests you rtfm for both scanimage and the
    backend, in your case something like sane-plustek

2) when you do some of the above you might then know to try things with
    the scanimage command like:

       $ scanimage -d libusb:001:010 -A -v
         or maybe something like -d plustek:libusb:001:010

3) sometimes a complete power cycling of the scanner is needed to get
    things back to 'normal'.

4) for really hard problems something like
       $ export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20
       $ scanimage -d plustek:libusb:001:010 ...
    might be beneficial to sane gurus if you provide all the output.
    20 is just an example, it might be 255 or some other value.
    remember to reset envvar SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK when you're done with it.
    the plustek manpage should provide guidance, but the source will if
    the manual is lacking.

5) keep the list informed of your progress, and especially success.

best of luck

aloha

ras