On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:42:24PM +1200, Rob Kampen wrote:
On 09/26/2015 10:08 PM, Meikel wrote:
Hi folks,
for some time I used a HP 2840 AiO device, connected via LAN, to scan documents. As scanning application I use xsane. I want to replace that HP scanner by a CanoScan LiDE 210.
# LANG="" yum info libsane-hpaio ... Installed Packages Name : libsane-hpaio Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.14.6 Release : 3.el6 Size : 148 k Repo : installed From repo : base Summary : SANE driver for scanners in HP's multi-function devices URL : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2+ Description : SANE driver for scanners in HP's multi-function devices (from HPOJ).
Now I connected CanoScan LiDE 210 Scanner via USB cable to my CentOS 6 workstation.
# dmesg | tail --lines=15 ... usb 3-1: new high speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=190a usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-1: Product: CanoScan usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Canon usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice ...
After opening xsane it seems to be connected to the HP Scanner. I can not find any options for choosing another scanner device. From http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html I can see that CanoScan LiDE 210 is supported by genesys 1.0-63. From my understanding on CentOS the genesys backend is included in sane-backends:
# LANG="" yum info sane-backends ... Installed Packages Name : sane-backends Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.0.21 Release : 3.el6 Size : 4.4 M Repo : installed From repo : anaconda-CentOS-201410241409.x86_64 Summary : Scanner access software URL : http://www.sane-project.org License : GPLv2+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions and Public Domain Description : Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is a universal scanner interface. The : SANE application programming interface (API) provides standardized : access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, : hand-held scanner, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).
The sane-backends is installed, but I can not "see" the scanner:
# scanimage -L device `hpaio:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_2840?zc=NPI9AC264' is a Hewlett-Packard HP_Color_LaserJet_2840 all-in-one
I have no idea what I can do now. It is not clear to me if sane-backends package really includes the required genesys 1.0-63 version.
Any help to make the new scanner work is appreciated.
My Cannon printer / scanner needed an application from Cannon called scangear in order to work - Cannon doesn't play well with Linux, they have proprietary ways of doing things. Then the scangear results need to be massaged extensively so you can attach it to an email as the typical scan is huge / photo quality and no options to produce something like my Ricoh copier does with a scan to pdf / email. I will not buy Cannon products again.
Regards,
Meikel
Yeah. if they don't care about us, why should we care about them?
Only reason I bought the Canon LiDE 210 was because it had "full" support from SANE.