[sane-devel] Canon PIXMA MX725: ADF scan duplex and automatic recognition of number of pages

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Timo,

I prefer gscan2pdf for multi page adf scans.

Please report if your problem also occurs with gscan2pdf.

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Rolf


Am 29.07.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Timo Ziegler:
> Hi,
>
> I got my MX725 running with scanimage on sane-pixma backend.
>
> My last problems are that I can't scan in duplex mode via ADF and that
> a ADF batch scan tries to scan another page after all pages are gone
> from the ADF and then just gets stuck (need to use Ctrl + C once or
> twice).
>
> To scan in duplex mode, I tried the following options:
> --ScanMode=Duplex => unrecognized option "--ScanMode"
> --source="ADFDUP"
> --source="Automatic Document Feeder(left align,duplex)
> --source="Automatic Document Feeder(left align,Duplex)
> and maybe some variations more => setting of option --source failed
> (Invalid argument)
>
>
> To scan "infinity pages, incrementing by 1, numbering from 1", I just
> used --batch and scanned.
> It's successfully scanning all the pages + tried to scan a next one
> after the ADF runs out of pages to scan.
> // Scanning page 1
> // Scanned page 1. (scanner status = 5)
> // Scanning page 2
>
> Then nothing happens anymore. When I press Ctrl + C, it tries to
> // scanimage: received signal 2
> // scanimage: trying to stop scanner
>
> Nothing happens, so I press Ctrl + C again
> // scanimage: received signal 2
> // scanimage: aborting
>
> Scanning via --batch --batch-number=2 works fine, but I want to use
> scanbuttond later so I don't want to set the number of pages every time.
>
> I tried using --adf-wait=3 but this option is not recognized. It's not
> listed in scanimage -A, but I found it in the online pixma-backend
> documentation.
>
>
> I hope, somebody can give a hint.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Timo