[sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

[Françoise Del Socorro]

No, in that case, 

Xsane tells me: No devices available.
Simple scan tells me: No scanners detected - please check your scan is connected 
and powered on.



________________________________
De : m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
À : Françoise Del Socorro <waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com>
Cc : sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Envoyé le : Mar 22 mars 2011, 14h 47min 53s
Objet : Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid 
10.04

Did you have wine running some scanner software at the time you tried
the tests with simplescan or xsane? Only one program can talk to the
scanner at a time.

allan

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Françoise Del Socorro
<waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you both,
>
> Indeed scanner works perfectly in command-line even after deleting (with
> Computer Janitor) iscan, imlib and iscan-plugin. (With Wine, they happen to
> be a software like Xsane, so Iscan is the driver + software pack that is
> only compatible with a few RPM distros, and libsane (plustek) + sane-utils
> (scanimage) is the driver + software pack compatible with DEB distros and
> perhaps also RPM.)
>
> But this scanner isn't working with graphical user interface softwares like
> simple-scan nor xsane because plustek is not selected, even if Xsane ask us
> to select it at start. So is there a way to load modules automatically into
> scanner softwares?
>
> And is there a way for it to work faster ? (or perhaps old scanners are >
> 180s/page)
>
> scanimage -d plustek --resolution 1200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test2.pnm
> -> more than 3min, huge size: 10 156 x 14 028 pixels, resized with GIMP.
>http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test2resized,2a6b0c074ff97182d246199ded9da370.jpg.html
>l
> scanimage -d plustek --resolution 200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test200.pnm
> -> more than 2min, normal size: 1692 x 2338
>http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test200,819e4e0c0d2dea459993825b51266f9c.jpg.html
>l
>
> Xsane: Failed to start scanner: Device busy
> export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; xsane
> [plustek] Available and supported devices:
> [plustek] Device: >libusb:006:002< - 0x04b8x0x010f
> [plustek] Device configuration:
> [plustek] device name  : >auto<
> [plustek] Device description for >0x04B8-0x010F< found.
> [plustek] Device WAF  : 0x00004002
> [plustek] Device Flags: 0x00000000
> [plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbff7ed9c, 0)
> [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16)
>
> Simple-scan: Failed to scan: Unable to start scan
> export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; simple-scan
> [plustek] sane_start
> [plustek] usbDev_open(libusb:006:002,) - (nil)
> [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16)
> [plustek] sane_start: open failed: 16
> ** (simple-scan:2356): WARNING **: Unable to start device: Device busy
>
> ________________________________
> De : Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de>
> À : sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc : Françoise Del Socorro <waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com>
> Envoyé le : Mar 22 mars 2011, 10h 42min 55s
> Objet : Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid
> 10.04
>
> Hi Françoise,
>
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 09:21:43 Françoise Del Socorro wrote:
> [...]
>> He did a small 202x150 pixels image with just the upper part of the paper
>> and mostly blank, he did not recognize where the paper was in the scanner
>> (it was in the middle as before), and he did not scan the entire document
>> table (as he did once when the paper was at the same place), since he only
>> have found 1/4 of it.
>
> that's perfect, as it's the default setting for scanimage.
> Either use a suitable frontend like xsane for adjusting the scan area
> or use the -x -y parameters for scanimage to enlarge the scan area.
> You might also adjust the resolution.
>
> "man scanimage" might be your friend.
>
> HTH
> Gerhard
>
>
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