[sane-devel] No Backends found

[Kelly Price]

Nether are scanimage, which is a command-line only program.  That said...

...I think things are just going to work.  If you have a printed photo of
your pet available to use as a test scan, put it in the scanner now.  Then
from the Terminal:

scanimage --format=png -o ~/Desktop/test.png

If things work out, your scanner will scan the pic and then put the result
on your desktop as a PNG file.




On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> 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)
>
>

-- 
Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
http://redwolf.ws
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