gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel

scanimage and option titles

Jeffrey Ratcliffe — 2013-05-18T21:18:48

GUIs often either use the SANE API directly, or control a scanner by
wrapping scanimage.

Generally, there is no advantage in using scanimage, as it is slower,
but in certain situations, for instance remote access, it is not
possible to use the SANE API directly. Also, debugging a backend
problem is much easier with scanimage.

The major visual difference for the user in these two interface
methods, is that, apart from groups, scanimage does not expose the
option titles. As the option names are not translated, a GUI therefore
cannot use the sane-backend translations and has to use its own.

This could all be avoided if scanimage were to expose the option
titles. The translations from sane-backends could be used, and the two
interface methods would look the same.

I therefore propose an additional option for scanimage that exposes
the option title in the --help output.

Is a patch for scanimage along these lines likely to be accepted?

Regards,

Jeff

iX500 multiple pages

dfriberg23 — 2013-05-18T02:38:03

I got my iX500 to work with the latest git snapshot of sane-backend. 
However, when I load 3 papers into the scanner, and run this:

SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=15 scanimage -d fujitsu --format=tiff --resolution=300 >
foo.tif 2> log.txt

The first 2 pages get sucked through, and about a fourth of the third page,
but only the first page is written to foo.tif.  Is there a way to control
the number of pages it brings through, or do we not know how to do that yet?



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canon MX892 scan test OK

Tim — 2013-05-16T20:25:57

Canon MX892 (US model), works

tested:
150/300/600 dpi scans of an IT8 camera target using xsane front end over 
802.11g, auto discovery

not tested:
USB / Ethernet

backend:
git clone as of today (16 May), no changes.

related software:
xsane 0.998
cnijfilter-mx890series-3.70-1.x86_64 from canon-asia
cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.x86_64 from canon-asia
cups-bjnp-1.2.1-x86_64-1_SBo from slackbuilds.org
2.6.37.6c (tim< at >hp_lap) (gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) ) #8 SMP
Slackware 13.37, x86_64

environment:
PIXMA_EXPERIMENT=1
SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11

scanimage -L:

Let me know if different information would be useful.

Cheers,

start

Tiago Zaniquelli — 2013-05-16T20:08:43

Hello,

I am begining with the development the scanner driver.

I have seen these files and directories:


/etc/sane.d/dll.conf

/usr/lib/sane/


How does Sane  work ?


Exist a flowchar of working?


I haven´t found in the documentation.


Best Regards,


Tiago Zaniquelli

HP OfficeJet 6700 ADF Problems

Alex — 2013-05-16T18:18:05

I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask, but I have run into a
couple of problems scanning from my HP OfficeJet 6700's ADF. The flatbed
scanner works perfectly and as expected, though. I'm running x86_64
Gentoo using sane-backends 1.0.23 and hplip 3.13.4 built with scanner
support.

I'm not really entirely sure what's going on with it, but when I use
scanimage like this:

scanimage -d 'hpaio:/usb/Officejet_6700?serial=[SERIAL]' --format=tiff
-p -v--source ADF --mode Color --resolution 300 -x 215.9 -y 279 -b
--batch-start=1 --batch-count=4

it feeds the documents and scans them each to out1.tif, out2.tif,
out3.tif, out4.tif just as expected. The progress percentage, however,
stops at some percentage before it moves on to the next page or
finishes. This percentage varies, and depends a bit on the -y argument.
If I leave it at the default (which I think is A4 sized), it'll stop at
about 75% for each page. If I have it at 279, for US letter sized, it'll
stop around 90%.

The files open fine in EOG (Eye of

resolution problem with HP 4400c

Amit Ramon — 2013-05-16T08:25:39

Hello,

I've got a HP scanjet 4400c, and I'm trying to scan with xsane and
xscanimage on Debian.

When I scan at 75 DPI all is fine, with either color or
grayscale. However, whenever I try to scan at a higher resolution I
get an image which is all solid color, some shade of gray.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Amit

Canon Lide 110 driver hangs under kernel 3.2

Adolf Szabo — 2013-05-15T15:56:30

Hi All,

So far I used Canon Lide 110 fine, but after a kernel update it started not
working. Symptoms are: scanning first page works, scanning second page does
not work. Unplugging then re-plugging and it is working again. So in effect
I need to disconnect and reconnect after every page.

Before first page lsusb says:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110

scanimage -L says:
device `genesys:libusb:003:002' is a Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner

after first page neither are showing my scanner.

kernel version:
3.2.0-41-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 25 03:27:11 UTC 2013

Please advise,
Thx, Dolfy

Looking to get my Mustek A3 1200S flatbed Scanner with GL128 chip working with XSANE

Aaron Silver — 2013-05-14T22:54:55

I've got a Mustek A3 1200S flatbed scanner that I'd like to use with XSANE.
The sane-find-scanner reported the USB ID as 0x055f and the Device ID as
0x0502. It thought the scanner had a GL848+ chip, but when I opened the
case I see a chip with GL128 stamped on it.

I had USBlyzer listen while I did a couple of scans (one full A3 size, and
one of the lower half of the page), but I don't know what the next step is
or how to take it. If someone can walk me through it I'd be happy to do as
much of the work as I can, but I'm also willing (and some would say very
able) to play dumb monkey and feed someone knowledgeable the information
they ask for.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron Silver

Looking to get my Mustek A3 1200S flatbed Scanner with GL128 chip working with XSANE

Aaron Silver — 2013-05-14T22:57:02

I've got a Mustek A3 1200S flatbed scanner that I'd like to use with XSANE.
The sane-find-scanner reported the USB ID as 0x055f and the Device ID as
0x0502. It thought the scanner had a GL848+ chip, but when I opened the
case I see a chip with GL128 stamped on it.

I had USBlyzer listen while I did a couple of scans (one full A3 size, and
one of the lower half of the page), but I don't know what the next step is
or how to take it. If someone can walk me through it I'd be happy to do as
much of the work as I can, but I'm also willing (and some would say very
able) to play dumb monkey and feed someone knowledgeable the information
they ask for.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron Silver

USB device 05a9:1550 OmniVision Technologies,Inc. VEHO Filmscanner

Aidan Karley — 2013-05-07T11:29:32

Back in 2011 I asked about support for the Veho OmniVision slide scanner.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2011-July/028776.html

Although I've been scanning this mailing list ever since (and not terribly fussed over the machine - my need for slide scanning urgently abated with the funeral), there has been no substantive response from 
"Glenn Howald glenn.howald at gmail.com wrote 


So it seems there is no further work on this project. Or have I just been missing any contributions from Glenn?

I'm going through the "old stuff" boxes now, and don't know if I should throw this away, or try to get it to work.


lsusb returns : 

05a9:1550 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. VEHO Filmscanner


aidank< at >aidank-laptop:~$ sane-find-scanner

  # blah

found USB scanner (vendor=0x05a9, product=0x1550) at libusb:001:006
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.


Probing the device with scanimage : 

aidank

Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan withSamsung SCX-4500W

Mike Cloaked — 2013-05-06T20:12:36

I have a strange scanner failure to try to resolve, and I am hoping that an
expert on this list may be able to help me fix the problem.

I have a Samsung SCX-4500W multifunction printer that is plugged in to the
usb port of my main machine running arch linux x86_64.  The printer part
works fine with the Splix driver, but the scanner fails to work.

When I unplug the device and plug it into a laptop running arch linux, it
works fine. On a second laptop also running arch linux the scanner
functions also work fine (xsane). However plugging the same device back in
to my main desktop the scanner fails to work.

Some information is as follows:

sane-find-scanner works as either root or user and yields lines including:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.],
product=0x342b [SCX-4500W Series]) at libusb:001:007
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

scanimage -L works the first time I issue

Kodak i2600

Brian DeRocher — 2013-04-30T03:07:14

Hey,

I just wanted to report that the driver from Kodak for the i2600 works
very well.  They are 32 bit only.  Kind of a pain to get it all
working.  Lots of stracing to see where files were being loaded from.

In other news, i'm using Xsane + Scan Tailor + libdjvu + a radial arm
saw to convert all my books to digital.

Brian

Linux drivers for scanjet 3000

Bruce Markey — 2013-04-26T01:02:51

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for
getting an hp scanjet 3000 working with sane.  From what I see its  not
supported by hplip .

Thanks
Bruce

troubleshooting Xerox WC3220 network scanning

Henrieta Marmorstein — 2013-04-25T18:51:43

Hello !

I tried all in this excellent tutorial
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane.d%20tutorial but I cannot access the
scanner installed in my little network. This model of XEROX MFP is working
on Windows system, I used it in my office, but I cannot used it with Ubuntu
12.10. As a network printer everything is OK.

Can you help me, please ? Maybe also with a method to fax from PC ?

Thank you.

Henrieta Marmorstein

ADF - Calibration problem

arobase er — 2013-04-24T20:51:45

Hello,

I have started using sane to scan using an ADF.

$ scanimage -V
scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22

$ scanimage -L
device `hp5590:libusb:036:003' is a HP 4500C/5550C Workgroup scanner

$ scanimage --batch --format=tiff --mode Gray --resolution 75 --source ADF
--batch-increment 2

Here's the output for the first 3 pages: *http://tinyurl.com/b3shh4v*

The problem is that a portion of the left hand side shows on the rhs and
conversely. This portion grows with the number of scanned pages.

Any advice on fixing this calibration problem?

Platform: OS X 10.6+ - MacPorts 2.1.3

Out of memory (Brother MFC-9465CDN)

martin f krafft — 2013-04-23T10:08:20

[repost, in dire hope of someone who can help…]

Hey there,

I have a problem with a Brother MFC-9465CDN that I access through
a "scanner server" running saned. The problem is that most scans
fail with an "out of memory" message.

However, I can scan fine when using scanimage on the server
directly, the problem is when going through saned.

This machine does not have a whole lot of ooomph, but 1Gb of RAM
should be enough. In any case, there is still free memory (according
to top) at the time of the error.

Is this a problem with saned or the machine it's running on, or
a problem with the scanner?

To me, it seems that the out-of-memory message comes from the
scanner, but maybe I am misinterpreting the debug output (see
below).

Thanks for any help!

Here is the client output:

  % scanimage -d 'net:scanner.is:brother4:net1;dev0' -p --mode 'Black & White' --resolution 300 --source 'Automatic Document Feeder(left aligned)' >| /tmp/s
  scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
  scanimage: rounded

Testing Sane + Canon MG6250

Ashley Arnold — 2013-04-22T13:04:18

Hi,

I'm not really sure how to do this, but the
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html page said "Testers needed", so
here is what I did to get my Canon MG6250 scanner going.

This is on xubuntu 12.10 64-bit with all current updates as at 13th Apr
2013. Here is my xsane version info:

$ xsane --version
xsane-0.998 (c) 1998-2010 Oliver Rauch
  E-mail: Oliver.Rauch< at >xsane.org
  package xsane-0.996
  compiled with GTK-2.24.12
  with color management function
  with GIMP support, compiled with GIMP-2.8.0
  XSane output formats: jpeg, pdf(compr.), png, pnm, ps(compr.), tiff, txt

After installing xsane, initially it wouldn't detect the MG6250 (which was
on the network via wireless connection). It would look for devices and then
the process would end.

After reading the man docs and finding the "backend name" for my printer is
"pixma", I did:

   - man sane-pixma (seems to be a man entry for each backend) tells you to
   that network scanners should normally be detected, but if not, add them
   directly to /et

sane-backends 1.0.23 source code tar.gz file withincorrect MD5 hash?

Andre Leite — 2013-04-19T14:42:33

Hello to sane-devel,
  
  today I downloaded a copy of the source code related to Sane 1.0.23 (HTTP: alioth.debian.org (USA, provided by Debian))
  
  from the following links:
  https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3752/sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.1
  https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3752/sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.2
  https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3752/sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.3
  
  The file was split in 3 parts as it was explained on the README.txt (Due to limitations in alioth's file upload software). 
  After downloading each part I executed cat to join them into the tar.gz file:
  
  (1) cat sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.[1-3] > sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz
  
  In the end I had the complete file: sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz
  
  Then I downloaded the MD5 hash file: sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.md5
  from the link: https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3756/sane-backends-1.0.23.tar.gz.md5
  which contains the MD5 hash
  e226a89c54173efea80e91e9a5eb6573  sane-backends

HP Scanjet 3000

Zvi Herschman — 2013-04-18T18:53:23

Is there any way to make an HP Scanjet 3000 work on Ubuntu?  Ubuntu does
not even recognize a device has been plugged in.  Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

Pulstek OpticBook 3800

Nikolay Shaplov — 2013-04-18T18:39:17

Hi!

I've recently bought Pulstek OpticBook 3800, hoping that it is almost the same 
thing as 3600, and I wont need much configuring with it. 

This hopes died when I did sane-find-scanner, it said

found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3 [PLUSTEK INC], product=0x1300 [USB2.0 
SCANNER], chip=GL847) at libusb:001:020

and 3600 is GL841 :-(

What did I do:

I've cloned Genesys_Model plustek_3600_model in backend/genesys_devices.c
replaced GENESYS_GL841 with GENESYS_GL847, added correct vendor and product id 
for this clone in device list there, built and installed it, and also added 
vendor and product id into /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf 

Result was the following

scanimage makes the scanner move it's head (not always sane, sometimes it 
tries to move out of device physical limits) and turn the lamp on and off.

Scanning goes with turned off lamp, and the result file if always filled with 
0x00, even if i put external light source over the scanner.


This is my limits of what I can do myself without your help.

I did

(no subject)

耿明霞 — 2013-04-18T08:45:52

Hi

         Does Kodak i40 support SANE?