[CentOS] CentOS 6 - Support for CanoScan LiDE 210

Sat Sep 26 10:42:24 UTC 2015
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>

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
>
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