Scanner Support
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Scanner Support
started by: Kero_1116
Posted by Kero_1116 on Jan. 14 2006,05:34
Anyone able to get your scanner working with DSL? If yes, how? Is it possible to network the scanner? My scanner uses SCSI and it's a HP ScanJet 5p
Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 16 2006,05:07
You may be able to use Synaptic or APT-GET to install the SANE package and see if you can get it working.
Posted by berhurt on May 11 2007,07:04
Hi, I also have this problem...I tried two things: -1) apt-get install xsane
but when I type in xsane in the command line it says the licencing information cannot be found and maybe xsane wasn't set up properly.
2) ran the sane front- and backend-packages but I can't find any interface and have no idea how to start the thing in an xshell...
Any help please?
Posted by Juanito on Sep. 05 2007,06:17
I've managed to get scanning working from the command line on a couple of hp all-in-one printer/fax/scanners using hplip/sane-backend. It should be possible to network the scanner(s) but I didn't try that yet.I'd like to be able to scan directly from the mydsl gimp extension but it looks like I'd need to compile xsane or xscanimage and link them as a gimp plug-in.
Did you finally manage to get xsane working (to save me trying)?
Posted by Juanito on Sep. 05 2007,11:01
I just discovered that it is possible to scan from the command line directly into the mydsl gimp extension as-is - this works even if gimp is not running:| Code Sample |
| $ hp-scan -n --editor=gimp HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.7.6) Scan Utility ver. 0.2 Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.2 Using device hpaio:/usb/OfficeJet_K80?serial=ES0911401VOH Opening connection to device... Resolution: 300dpi Mode: color Compression: JPEG Scan area (mm): Top left (x,y): (0.000000mm, 0.000000mm) Bottom right (x,y): (215.899994mm, 381.000000mm) Width: 215.899994mm Height: 381.000000mm Destination(s): editor Warming up... Scanning... Read 32.6 MB from scanner. Closing device. Sending to destination 'editor': Editing file in /usr/bin/gimp |
It's impressive how well dsl managed to manipulate a 32MB image...
Posted by Jason W on Mar. 22 2008,13:24
If anyone is interested in Xsane, I have built an extension that works well for my UMAX usb scanner. When the extensions are loaded it is pretty much point and click to scan. Here they are: (unzip the tarballs for the files)< http://74.237.17.82/dsl/xsane.tar.bz2 >
< http://74.237.17.82/dsl/sane-backends.tar.bz2 >
Both extensions are needed for Xsane, but sane-backends can function on its own from the command line. All the available sane drivers are included but of course I could only test one of them. If it works for others I would like to know. I didn't compile it against the gimp, I just wanted a standalone scanning utility. But that could be done.
Juanito - I tried to scan with your hplip extension but could not. Does your extension support non-hp scanners? If it does I would just use your extension instead of this one. You have obviously put a lot of time into it, and it is very well documented.
Posted by Juanito on Mar. 22 2008,13:35
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| Juanito - I tried to scan with your hplip extension but could not. Does your extension support non-hp scanners? If it does I would just use your extension instead of this one. You have obviously put a lot of time into it, and it is very well documented. |
- no, it will only work with the scanner function on hp all-in-one machines. I did compile sane-backends/frontends but then removed the files not required by hplip.
I was working on a new version of hplip by splitting out cups, hplip and sane, but I couldn't test either cups or sane in standalone mode so I stopped...
Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 22 2008,15:17
Juanito:Reading this thread I thought I'd remind you how you helped me with my scanner.
In Sept 07 you emailed me three files:
sane_hplip.tar.gz,
hplip_xsane_a.tar.gz and
sane_libs.tar.gz for my scanner (Acer Flatbedscanner_9).
with info on creating a plug-in for gimp.
They worked fine.
Edit: can also use command: xscanimage from aterm when not running gimp.
Posted by WDef on Mar. 23 2008,23:26
I have a sane.uci that I can post if that helps. It's been sitting on my hd awaiting finishing touches. EDIT: Looks like it will work with Jason's xsane extension.
Posted by Jason W on Mar. 23 2008,23:41
A uci extension would be great. I tried to make a .uci of xsane but was frustrated with getting sane to recognize libusb that was already installed into /opt/xsane-0.995. I don't mind using .dsl, but I much prefer .uci if there is a choice.EDIT: If Wdef has done the sane.uci (the hard part), then making an xsane.uci that uses the sane.uci should be pretty simple.
Posted by Juanito on Mar. 24 2008,03:36
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| then making an xsane.uci that uses the sane.uci should be pretty simple |
- and it would also be useful if it could be compiled for compatibility with gimp-1.2.uci. xscanimage from hplip can be called from inside gimp-1.2, but it would probably be better not to have to load a 20MB extension...
Posted by WDef on Mar. 24 2008,21:45
Give me a day or 2 to post, initially without gimp support.I assume there's 'configure option for this? I cant remember it was built a few months ago.
Posted by Jason W on Mar. 24 2008,23:19
I think I had compiled Xsane with Gimp support built in once, but it added Gimp as a dependency for Xsane to run. There is a tutorial on the Xsane site on how to run Xsane as a Gimp plugin which would not need Gimp support compiled in:< http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-gimp-doc.html >
That I think would be better than requiring the Gimp as a dependency extension if you can just link them together through a simple symbolic link once the extension is loaded. That is if I have read the page right.
Posted by Juanito on Mar. 25 2008,03:34
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| I assume there's 'configure option for this? I cant remember it was built a few months ago. |
- yes, there is, but you also have to specify whether you want gtk1/gimp-1.x or gtk2/gimp-2.x
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| That I think would be better than requiring the Gimp as a dependency extension if you can just link them together through a simple symbolic link once the extension is loaded |
- I used a symbolic link with an order version of xsane and gimp-1.2 which works fine. If the newer version of xsane inserts a dependency on gimp then I guess it is better not to go this way.
Posted by jls legalize on Mar. 28 2008,23:43
the file< http://74.237.17.82/dsl/sane-backends.tar.bz2 >
is corrupted.
legalize cannabis, coke.
Posted by Jason W on Mar. 29 2008,11:33
Thanks jls_legalize for letting me know. I will look into it when I get home tonight. EDIT: There is also sane-backends-1.0.18.dsl in the same directory that I use whenever I scan, and I am pretty sure it is not corrupted. But with WDef and Juanito cooking up extensions for scanning/printing, it will not be needed for long.
WDef & Juanito: I would be happy to build an xsane.uci to go with whichever sane.uci you guys submit if you haven't done that already. Either as part of the sane.uci or a seperate package.
Posted by Juanito on Mar. 29 2008,15:15
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| I was working on a new version of hplip by splitting out cups, hplip and sane, but I couldn't test either cups or sane in standalone mode so I stopped... |
- 'spoke too soon, I finally managed to print with cups without hplip (I knew I needed hpijs, but forgot hpoj
)Perhaps we could share the work, I could contribute cups-1.3.5.uci and hplip-2.8.2.uci and you guys could contribute sane.uci - note I'd need to know the location of sane since hplip uses its lib(s).
Edit: ...or I could send you the version of sane.uci I made [libusb-0.1.12, sane-backends-1.0.19, sane-frontends-1.0.14], but cannot test (apart from xscanimage and the libs hplip needs).