canoscan lide 50

[Tommy Trussell]

On 10/15/05, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It so bugs me that I have never got my scanner
> working with 5.04 and now 5.10.
>
> Device Manager sees it but I get, 'no devices
> available' when I try to run xsane.
>


Sadly, the reason is your scanner is not supported by the SANE project

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=canon&model=lide+50&bus=any

I bought a Canon Lide 20 on eBay because I needed a small USB flatbed
scanner and I knew it was "completely" supported, but it is very frustrating
having such spotty support from Canon. I have some other Canon hardware and
it's frustrating I can't use all of it reliably with linux.

The reason is Canon does not release the hardware specifications to the
public, so there are no proper opportunities for others to write supporting
software. I gather the LiDE 20 and 30 are supported only because someone was
able to infer the proper commands, and the other LiDE scanners use a
different company's chip inside.

I wrote a complaint to Canon but I don't have any hopes that their attitude
will change anytime soon.
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