Visioneer Onetouch 7300 driver problems [SOLVED]

[Cybe R. Wizard]

"Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>  said:
> My visioneer Onetouch 7300 scanner is detected by name with the
> command <scanimage -L>
> which tells me:
> "device `gt68xx:libusb:003:002' is a Visioneer OneTouch 7300 flatbed
> scanner"
> but neither sane nor any of the backends I've tried can access it.
> I've googled for a driver and all I've found tells me to get it from
> the Visioneer installation CD /after/ I've installed it on Windows.  I
> don't have any Windows installations and don't expect to ever have
> one.  How may I get my scanner to work?
> 
> Cybe R. Wizard

After installing cabextract and breaking my head for a while trying to
find the driver I broke down and installed WINE in hopes of getting the
scanner to work. The main directory of the installation CD brought me
no joy.
Luckily, the CD had a Scansoft directory that contained a Frontends
sub-directory wherein I found the program, fe32.exe.  Running that with
WINE gave me the Windows installation and loaded the proper driver
into /home/cybe/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Visioneer OneTouch and
there it was; Cis3r5b1.fw, the driver I needed.
A little sudo gedit, open /usr/local/etc/gt68xx.conf and following the
directions there and on
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/adding.html
got the scanner up and running.
Thanks to all!

Cybe R. Wizard
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