[sane-devel] No Backends found

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Thu Jun 25 22:08:44 BST 2026


On 6/25/26 2:26 PM, Kelly Price wrote:
> I think the goal here is first to get scanimage to work using the SANE 
> drivers.  Once that does, Xscan and Xsane will follow.
> 
> So make sure you installed scanimage and if your distro has sane- 
> backends, install that as well (it should have if your distro's package 
> manager handles dependencies).

What I have installed and on my menu are ScanGear and XSane.  Which one 
is scanimage?  Fedora has sane-backends and they're already installed. 
As far as working in a Terminal, I was using C/PM and MS-DOS before they 
had gooies.  And, I've used scanners many times but never had this much 
trouble setting one up.  Here's the list of devices:

List of available devices:
     pixma:04A91158 canon_pixma:libusb:002:002
     airscan:e0:Canon TS3700 series (USB)



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