[CentOS] Simple scan in CentOS 7

Tue Jun 16 11:54:05 UTC 2020
Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net>

On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 16:28 -0400, H wrote:
> I just installed C7 on a new computer and despite Simple Scan being
> installed as part of C7, I have not been able to get it to recognize
> my Canon scanner connected to a USB port. I did have it running on
> another computer with C7 so there should not be any inherent issues.
> 
> On a lark I installed gscan2pdf and sane-backends-drivers-scanners
> and sane-find-scanner found it:
> 
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1908 [CanoScan])
> at libusb:001:010
So this is a CanoScan 9000. According to 
http://sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON it is supported since
sane-1.0.27. Centos 78 apparently has Sane 1.0.24. So you must have
downloaded a later version of Sane somewhere or compiled it yourself
(not too difficult)

BR, Louis