Scanner software recommendation

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:22 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an HP OfficeJet 5710 All-In-One attached to my Xubuntu 16.04.2
> home desktop that I've been using for over a year now. I use xsane for
> the scanner software, but I'm not at all happy with it.  It forgets
> half of its settings every time I switch from ADF to flatbed (mainly
> resolultion and paper size), and it doesn't handle multi-page scans
> well at all.  I have to scan each page individually because, for some
> reason, the software can't seem to figure out when one page ends and
> another begins.
>
>
You might want to check to be sure you have the best scanner driver
software installed for your particular model. The HP web site may recommend
a version that's NOT available in the Ubuntu repositories. Unfortunately
that might make you have to do some juggling and adjusting every time you
upgrade Ubuntu (as I have to do with my Brother scanner).

There are several scanner packages available in the Ubuntu repositories,
but the one I usually return to is called
    simple-scan

Simple-scan doesn't have all the features of xsane, but it handles
multi-page document scans quite easily, as long as the scanner (and feeder)
is already supported. If you need OCR (optical character recognition), scan
layout management, and other post-processing, there are some other packages
you might explore, but for basic scanning you should be able to get
simple-scan (or even xsane) working fairly easily and reliably.
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