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...-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...

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

...s i was able to get my hands on a version of the linux printer driver that works (UFR II driver for linux only available on the canon.de website).. so now i'm trying to scan. Just to pre-emt some posts, this is not connected to a USB port in any way.. Installing the windows app, color network scangear works under wine. Going into the configuration the app can find and talk to the scanner, all good. The app however doesn't allow you to actually scan, of course you have to TWAIN to do that (doh!) Is there anyway of pointing linux to use the wine twain?? Probably not i'm sure, but it see...

...w that Wine usually offers the system's SANE scanners to Windows applications using a custom implementation of the twain.dll. In my case, I'm using a network scanner which has no linux drivers (Canon ImageRunner 2200). I was able to successfully install the Windows driver on Wine, and the ScanGear Tool that comes with the driver reports that the Scanner is online and the communication is working. (Since no direct hardware access is involved and all communication to the scanner is carried out over TCP/IP, I'm not even sure if this is a "real driver" from the technical point of v...