Running windows programs under Linux

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 2 14:47:53 UTC 2014


On 09/02/2014 01:19 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:38:19PM -0400, Doug wrote:
>> 
>> Epson has drivers for just about everything they make. For Linux,
>> they come in both deb and rpm flavors.
>> Just Google for the Epson drivers. (One non-Epson company may be
>> pointed to, but that is obsolete;
>> all the drivers are now sourced from Epson directly.)
>> 
> Yes, but they don't provide the rather effective 'Epson Scan' utility
> as well.  Thus one of the few things I use my XP guest in Virtualbox
> for is to run the Windows Epson scanner software for my V700.  The
> automatic slide enhancement software has saved me hundreds of hours
> manually sorting out old, faded, slides.
> 

You mean IScan? They do for my Workforce 635:

$ dpkg -l | grep -i iscan
ii  iscan
2.29.3-1~usb0.1.ltdl7   amd64        simple, easy to use scanner utility
for EPSON scanners
ii  iscan-data                                                  1.28.0-2
  all          Image Scan! for Linux data files

(iscan_2.29.3-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb)






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