simple scan

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Fri Apr 10 13:21:45 UTC 2020


On Thu 09 Apr 2020 at 16:54:20 -0700, Bob wrote:

> > What happened to simple-scan?  This worked before Ubuntu 19.10.  Now when I                                          
> > execute simple-scan I get another scanning program "Document Scanner".                                               
> > Document Scanner requires a driver while simple-scan did not.  How do I get                                          
> > simple-scan working again?                                                                                           
>                                                                                                                        
> Since I did not receive a response yesterday I tried the "Document Scanner"                                            
> program and installed the driver.  After the driver was installed the scanner                                          
> worked.  Today I again tried the "Document Scanner" program it could not find                                          
> the scanner.  Yesterday it could find the scanner, today it can not find the                                           
> scanner, I think it is because not that the  driver is install it expects the                                          
> scanner to be connected to a USB port.  The scanner is an HP M277DW MFP                                                
> connected as a LAN wireless device.                                                                                    
>                                                                                                                        
> Anyone have a recommendation for a scanner program that works with a wireless                                          
> scanner?                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                         
Let's try something that has worked for 100% of users who have used it.                                                  
                                                                                                                         
Read https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan. The link to Ubuntu                                                     
binaries is                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                         
  https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Apzz&package=sane-airscan                                   
                                                                                                                         
Just in case that does not work I will give you a direct link to the                                                     
file for Ubuntu 19.10:                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                         
  https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/                                                                  
                                                                                                                         
Install (I believe double-clicking on the filename will do this) and                                                     
test with either the 'simple-scan' or 'xsane' commands.                                                                  
                                                                                                                         
Please give us the output of                                                                                             
                                                                                                                         
  scanimage -L                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                         
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Brian.




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