[CentOS] Simple scan in CentOS 7

Tue Jun 16 17:15:17 UTC 2020
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 06/16/2020 07:54 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> 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
>
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Hmm, I have no recollection of compiling sane. Btw, it is not clear to me where you saw that version 1.0.27 is needed? This scanner seems to be fully supported in the sane-pixma library.