Method 2) Scan directly from the Scanner itself using the built in GUI and automatically send a PDF file directly to a Computer's Desktop or desired folder. Method 1) Use software like Foxit Reader to scan from the scanner to PDF and manually save file I am aware that you can scan via 2 methods normally via common All In One printers I want to scan from the Canon Printer, directly to the laptop via the USB connection. While I got the printer to print from the laptop, scanning is an issue. Here is where I am running into problems:
We want to install this printer via a USB cable on the laptop.
He also has a Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit Laptop. Enabling it can often make things work.My client has in his possession, a Canon imageRunner 1435iF. Sometimes a scanner will be supported by a sane backend that isn't enabled by default.
I searched on Google "get Scanner Access Now Easy to detect scangear mp version 3 devices" and found the page SANE - Installing a scanner that isn't auto-detected - Community Help Wiki. Update: method to add driver support to SANE (untried) So the solution would be getting devices found by the Canon scanner driver (ScanGear MP for Linux) available to the SANE backend.
To see which SCSI and USB scanners SANE can detect, run the command sane-find-scanner. With this problem, the device isn't available to SANE so it can't be used by the Xsane and Simple Scan front-end graphical user interfaces. The Scanner Access Now Easy ( SANE) application programming interface is commonly used on Linux to provide standardized access to scanners for applications like Simple Scan. It doesn't provide a solution but helped me work out that this problem is not caused by Simple Scan failing to detect the scanner. ( Simple Scan does not connect to WLAN Scanner in Mint 18.2).
However, the scanner tool it includes doesn't have advanced options or features of Simple Scan/Xsane.Īfter searching on Google, I found useful information at the page
The current ScanGear application provided with the drivers ( sudo scangearmp2 command) is useful because it can select, find and configure devices. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary portsĭevice `pixma:04A9180B_62FF57' is a CANON Canon PIXMA MG3000 Series multi-function peripheralĪnd then simple-scan connects fine to it, and I scan 1200 dpi into a PNG, so all is good for me :) # Not checking for parallel port scanners. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.įound USB scanner (vendor=0x138a, product=0x003f) at libusb:001:007įound USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x180b ) at libusb:001:010 If you expected something different, make sure that # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. well, if I had a driver connecting directly to Xsane, then I could get the raw image, and decide for myself how much loss of quality I want in my JPEG.ĮDIT: It turns out for these versions of the drivers, on Ubuntu 18.04, I in fact do have a SANE back-end: $ sudo sane-find-scanner Other tools like Simple Scan or Xsane are not needed. The worst thing about this, is that I get no "raw" image - I only get JPEG (and JPEG is embedded into the PDF too), with all the loss in quality and blockyness that entails. Upon clicking Version, this is displayed: Just wanted to note, that for my Canon scanner, upon installing the drivers, only a scangearmp2 application is installed, which looks nothing like the ScanGearMP screenshots from the accepted answer: