The link Wing gave is the one you want. Click over to the FAQ for details of which exactly you want for your distro, and the order to install them in (I just followed it for Linux Mint and it was painless).
Running the provided EPSON software with iscan
won't work yet:
"Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner’s status."
You need to [sudo
] edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
, commenting out everything except:
net
epkowa
You'll then need to edit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
(sudo
again) and add
usb
scsi
net XXX.XXX.X.X
where XXX.XXX.X.X
is the IP address of your printer.
For EPSON printers this can be found by going to the Wi-fi setup on the printer interface, going to 'set manually' which shows the IP address currently in use.
Or easier again, you should be able to run scanimage -L
and get a response:
device `epson2:net:XXX.XXX.X.X' is a Epson PID XXXX flatbed scanner
which upon changing of the config settings becomes:
device `epson2:net:XXX.XXX.X.X' is a Epson {Model} Series flatbed scanner
iscan
is the program you install off the EPSON website, short for ImageScan!, a little GUI program for scanning. It won't load until it can find the scanner [i.e. connect to the printer] according to the configuration specified in those 2 .conf
files.
Last tip (again via alicious.com) if you use the GIMP for graphics:
iscan works as a plugin provided you have a link in place in the plug-ins folder:
ln -s /usr/bin/iscan /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/iscan
WSD, Web Services for Devices, is a Microsoft API, so doesn't seem like that route's accessible off-Windows as far as I can see.