Questions tagged [scanner]
In computing, an image scanner is a device that optically scans images, text and other objects then converts the result to a digital image. Drivers and application programming interfaces (APIs) such as SANE are used by Unix/Linux scanning software to access scanning devices.
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Wireless multi-function printer setup problem on Feren OS
Trying out Feren OS 2023.04. It does not see my wireless printer. I was able to manually configure it & successfully print, but then it would not recognize the scanner function of the printer. ...
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Brother MFC-2700DW scan from printer results in "Check Connection"
I have a Brother MFC-2700DW printer connected to my Linux Mint 20 machine over WiFi. Printing and scanning from the computer work fine after following the instructions on Brother's website. However, ...
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Does 'apt update' also update nmap's scripts?
I'm building a Linux OVA on a VM to scan stuff with nmap.
I'm using cron to keep my packages up to date:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
It's from my understanding ...
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How to scan with ocr bash script
To streamline the scan process I intend to create a script that scans and applies OCR in one step. However my bash skills are rather poor, so I would be very thankful for a bit of help. Here my ...
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Xsane detects scanner with wrong device number
I'm running Debian 11, fresh install on HP Prodesk G4. I installed old Brother DCP-8060 printer & scanner. It prints but the only one app where scanner works is gscan2pdf.
I had so much problems ...
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xsane not permitting width wider than 8.267in
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Thinkpad with Gnome has my desktop. I have xsane 0.999 installed. My Scanner is an HP Color LaserJet MFP M476dw. With xsane I used to be able to scan widths up ...
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Simple Scan crashes almost immediately upon start-up
I'm using simple-scan on Debian and it is now always crashing. It worked fine a few months ago. I suspect that something got upgraded (I'm running bullseye) and broke things.
The output from simple-...
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Getting an SCSI scanner to work with a USB-to-serial adapter under Linux Kubuntu?
I hope that someone can help me get my old and beloved Heidelberg scanner to work under Linux Kubuntu -- or at least help me locate possible problems.
The situation is as follows: I have an old SCSI ...
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Can you explain a scanning session alterning between succesful scannings and Out of Memory errors?
On Debian 11,
I do this first scanning attempt, below, and it succeeds:
scanimage --mode=Color --format=jpeg >mathematiques/arc_associes_rotation_symetrie_1.jpg
Then a second one, few seconds ...
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Centos 7 to Automatically connect to a Bluetooth device when it's available
I need to connect Zebra ring scanners to Cent OS boxes. With Bluetoothctl I am able to connect to one with a specific BT address, however our users in the workhouse are using an application which ...
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Is sane available for using scanner on RHEL 8.5 (Oopta)?
I have installed RHEL 8.5 on a system and want to use scanner with a Java application using SANE. In previous versions of RHEL 7.x we use SANE ports for local scanners available on localhost (127.0.0....
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Cant find backend for new scanner
I recently bought a new printer/scanner to my raspberrypi.
The old one was HP_LaserJet_M1005. It worked fined.
Now I installed a new scanner, HP_LaserJet_MFP_M28-M31, and I get errors.
Until now, I ...
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Raspberry Pi doesn't recognize HP PSC 750xi Scanner
I posted this to raspberrypi.stackexchange yesterday with no responses and only 4 views, so I'm reposting and expanding the original post here to reach a wider/different audience.
I have an old Pi-3 ...
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My EPSON ET-2710 printer has a USB connection with a GNOME managed computer. I can print documents but Image Scan ignores my connection to the printer
My computer is a recent ACER Aspire with GNOME environment. I have connected it to my ET 2710 EPSON printer through a USB connection.
No problem to print a document. But the connection to the computer ...
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Document scanner on PC like with mobile apps
I'm impressed with the abilities of document scanner apps for mobile devices. I've tried a few and they do a very similar thing very well: Take a camera picture/photo of a paper document, detect it's ...
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Scaner operates but gives error
I've done a hard drive backup and reinstalled my OS (Linux Mint 20.2).
Now simple-scan refuses to be simple. It runs. Detects the scanner, The scanner scans when I click "scan". But when the ...
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Are there decent, free malware solutions for Linux? [closed]
I looked around for an antivirus on Linux (Arch) or malware scanner, bumped on ClamAV and I don't even remember if I got it to work so fair to say it didn't make the cut at the moment in time.
Are ...
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HP LaserJet Pro MFP M28a: unable to reach the scanner from XSane under Debian 11 using HPLIP
My OS is Debian 11 and my printer is an HP LaserJet Pro MFP M28a.
After the first install using the hplip package, both printing and scanning were working fine but, for some reason, I had to reinstall ...
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Scanner available only with sudo
I have an Epson ET-2756 printer. I'm able to print easily with it, but it took me a long time to understand why under Debian 10 my computer wasn't able to detect its scanner part.
Eventually, I've ...
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How to sort files based on barcode and bubble forms?
Summary: I need a means to sort scanned worksheets, by page number, and by student name, into a folder belonging to each student.
I need to setup a process for easily sorting worksheets completed by ...
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USB Barcode scanner returns values in wrong order
I have this Netum USB wired Barcode scanner which shows as BLM103 Virtual COM Port from the device list.
When used on Windows the scanner returns the read values properly, but for some reason on Mac ...
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Canon scanner recognised in Fedora, not Debian with sane-pixma
I have a Canon scanner and Iḿ trying to install it on a QubesOS machine. In one qube (virtual machine) I have a fresh Debian 10 install, in the other a fresh Fedora 32 install. The printer drivers are ...
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How can I make scanbd work on Raspberry Pi
I am trying to configure a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian to be a scan server with scanbd and SANE for my Canon CanoScan LIDE 60. As the buttons are not directly supported, I had to manually compile the ...
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How can I compile scanbd on Raspberry Pi?
I am trying to get the buttons on my Canon CanoScan LiDE 60 to work. So far I installed the sane-utils, the printer is detected and I can scan. However the front buttons on the scanner are not ...
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Do scanners really work better using Windows drivers?
I'm deciding what software to use to scan a large number of photographs and came across this article:
It’s a bummer I can’t use Ubuntu with my Canon flatbed scanner. Luckily I hadn’t scanned too many ...
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How do I register my scanner in Simple Scan?
Recently I decided to switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint 20.1.
When I open up the Document Scanner utility it says that it cannot detect any scanners.
I have a Brother MFC-L2700DW. Although it isn't ...
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How to come the GUI tool from scangearmp2
my print Canon MAXIFY MB5150
I have been downloading scangearmp2 from the canon site
I installated it with,
cd ~/scangearmp2-3.40-1-deb/packages
sudo apt install scangearmp2_3.40-1_amd64.deb
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cd ~...
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HP DeskJet Plus Ink Advantage 6075 All-in-One Printer - Scanner not working Linux Mint 19.3
I have an HP DeskJet Plus Ink Advantage 6075 All-in-One Printer. Unfortunately the scanner is not detected by any of these programs: Simple Scan, XSane, hp-uiScan.
In the first place it didn't work ...
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Treatment of a scanned logo with ImageMagick
I have an image produced by a scan of a logo, that is supposed to have only one tonality. The pixels close to the edge of the logo have various levels of density.
The use will require it to go over ...
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Cannot scan (documents) to Samba share when using SMBv2
On my Debian Buster I have a Samba share that works fine from both Windows and Linux clients.
I've configured the Samba with min protocol = SMB2 in smb.conf and with local user/password authentication ...
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Automatically scan first page with scanimage in batch mode
I'm using scanimage --batch-prompt command to scan multiple documents one by one. That way it will ask to confirm scan for each page including first one.
Problem is, my usual use case is to launch ...
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scanimage returns a broken image
i want to use a raspberry pi (Debian) as scan-Server.
For this job I installed SANE and ImageMagick.
If I scan with ...
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scanimage -p --resolution=25 --mode=Color -l 0 -t 0 -x 210mm -y 297mm >...
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Legacy vs modern printer for debian how to find out?
I want to purchase a printer with integrated scanner (ADF is a must). I'm currently running debian 10 and not much of an expert with regards to printing and scanning on linux. After consulting the ...
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Modify SANE backend for Canoscan 9000F scanner to allow A4 width scans longer than 11.7 inches
I'm new here so please forgive me if I'm not doing things right. I was hoping someone could help me. I am trying to modify a Canoscan 9000F scanner so that I can scan A4 width documents of any length ...
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SANE not detecting scanner by ID (pipe error) or path (invalid arg)
I have a Canon P-208II, which uses the canon_dr backend [0].
However, I noticed from lsusb that the product ID of mine (0x1660) differs from that in /etc/sane.d/canon_dr.conf and /usr/lib/udev/rules/...
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saned conflicting with saned.socket
I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 and I've successfully managed to configure an Epson network scanner in my LAN using sane utility.
Although the scanner works fine, command sudo systemctl status saned shows ...
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Canon ts3100 won't scan but will print
I have recently changed from Windows and love using Linux. Lots of challenges but a great system. I have Mint 19.3 running 64 bit. My printer/scanner is a Canon TS 3120, connected by usb to my ...
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Multiple tcp scanning tools integration
I recently started my first programming project that consist of purpose multiple tcp scanning tools integration for multiple usage. To be more clear, I want to incorporate NMAP and MASSCAN tools. But, ...
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scanimage --list-devices only works once
After plugging in the usb cable the Fujitsu scanner is found once:
uname -a
scanimage --list-devices
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
device `...
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Saned not providing scanner over netowrk
Just upgraded my file server to Mageia 7. It seemed to go pretty well, but even with good backups, I'm not able to get some stuff back. For example, my flatbed scanner is no longer working over the ...
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Can't find Ricoh All-in-One machines' scanners over network with Vuescan
I'm trying to access the scanner functionality of some Ricoh All-in-One printers from a workstation with Debian Stretch using Vuescan, but none of the means I've used can find any of them: neither ...
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scanner not found on debian
I have Debian 10 with GNOME, and the printer/scanner is an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M181fw.
I added this printer using the "graphical mode" (not using command lines).
The printer works. In ...
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sane, can't find my scanner (permission problem) even if I added udev rules unless i use sudo
My AIO Printer/Scanner is Canon E400 but I can't find my scanner as a normal user, only with sudo & scan is also work with sudo
~ cincinmasukmangkok@orangepizero
< sane-find-scanner ...
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How do I set up scanning from an HP OfficeJet Pro on NixOS?
I have cups printing working on NixOS with my HP OfficeJet Pro 8610.
But how do I get scanning working with, say, simple-scan?
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my server will damage if i delete this infected files?
some spam scripts in my server (it send thousands of mails/hr) i did scan to my server CentOS7 + Virtualmin using clamav , and this is the reuslts :
/home/joudakpk/homes/info/Maildir/cur/1555410522....
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How can I use my Canon Pixma network scanner?
I have successfully configured a Canon Pixma MX494 as a network printer from my laptop (PureOS/Debian) using CUPS. It appears under "Printers" and I can print a test page over the network.
I can ...
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Scanner GT-1500 Epson can't be found by xsane, simple-scan or iscan
Currently i am trying to get my Epson GT-1500 to work.
I am using Sparky Linux 5.0.4-amd64 which is based on debian stretch 9.
The scanner Epson GT-1500 is not supported by sane, therefore it was ...
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scan from printer to pdf file via a network
OS. Fedora 28 64 bit gnome fully up dated
Printer Brother MFC-J6530DW
Fixed IP addresses XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WW2 for the printer
Fixed IP address for the Computer XXX/YYY.ZZZ.WW3 for the Computer
The ...
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"Error during CMS conversion: Could not open scanner ICM profile"
I'm using xsane to scan images with my Brother MFC-L2710DW multifunction. Scanning works fine, but - I repeatedly get an error message saying:
Error during CMS conversion: Ccould not open scanner ...
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Script to gather IP Address and hostname from network devices
I want an output like this:
IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Hostname:Test-PC
This is what I have done:
test(){
ping -c 1 $1 > /dev/null
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