[sane-devel] No Backends found

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Thu Jun 25 23:52:29 BST 2026


On 6/25/26 3:38 PM, Kelly Price wrote:
> ...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.

I don't have a printed picture of my cat, but I took a picture I had, 
printed it out and used that.  Here's the output:

scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O

I did get a file on my desktop, but it was zero bytes, and went away 
when scanimage was done.



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