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Questions tagged [simplescan]

Questions related to Simple Scan, an application designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.

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Scanner Not detected by Simple Scan

I have Canon Pixma G3012 All-in-One Wireless Ink Tank Colour Printer I am trying to scan a document from my Linux Ubuntu 18 installed PC using simple scan software. Connected the device into PC over USB and powered on. Opened simple scan software…
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How to get a Brother DCP-350C scanner working?

Downloaded and installed the linux drivers from the Brother site here. But the scanner still wasn't recognised. You can see here, the drivers installed successfully: $ dpkg -l | grep Brother ii brother-cups-wrapper-common …
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Simple Scan cannot find scanner

Output of lsusb and sane-find-scanner below: janos@AndrasXubuntu:~/Desktop$ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is…
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How to set default file type PNG for Simple Scan?

With Xubuntu 15.10, Simple Scan 3.18.1, the default file type is, even for images, PDF. I would like to set it to PNG, is that possible? There is a related, older question for changing from JPG to PDF with the solution, to switch the scanning from…
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Multiple applications crash on 17.10 with "Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xff 0xff" with samsung scannner

I have a Samsung scanner which hasn't been working since I installed 17.10. # sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3430 [SCX-5635 Series]) at libusb:001:002 Each time I try to use simple-scan…
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Canon MG2550 PIXMA "Simple Scan : no scanners available, Ubuntu 14"

It's very simple! Nothing has worked until now1.... And Canon's website (Europe) doesn't seem to have the right Debian drivers for x64... Canon MG2550 Linux Drivers I just want a DEB file so I can click it and Ubuntu will take it from there doing…
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Configure simple-scan to produce PDF with better quality

I am scanning documents with simple-scan and I'm finding that, if I save documents as PDF, the quality is very low, and if I afterwards save teh document as PNG, the quality is very high. I have tried to enable "Photo" as opposed to "Text", and…
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Unable to connect to scanner (simple-scan & Brother DCP-L2530DW)

I'm using simple-scan with a Brother DCP-L2530DW printer/scanner. The printer works fine, but I'm having issues using the scanner. I've installed the drivers: jam@jam-ncase:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep Brother [sudo] password for jamie: ii brscan-skey …
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Cannot persuade ubuntu 18.04 to detect and run Canon G2000 series scanner

I have a Canon Pixma G2100 multifunctional that prints very well but I cannot use the scanner. My Linux is a Xubuntu 18.04 updated. I followed this link to install the scanner (option B - from source): https://blog.droidzone.in/tag/sane/ Both…
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Change settings for simple scan

we use 3 PC and 3 HP 6970 allinone connected via powerline. To choose one HP 6970 as standard printer for a PC is easy and works well. But simple scan don't use this standard device for scanning. Is there a possibility to set one HP device as…
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How to setup kyocera ecosys m2040dn scanner

i have kyocera ecosys m2040dn MFD, installed the printer driver downloaded from the official website. but only printer working, unable to use the scanner, how to install the scanner driver?
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Can't install simple-scan: you have held broken packages

On ubuntu 18.04, when I run sudo apt install simple-scan I get: The following packages have unmet dependencies. simple-scan : Depends: libsane1 (>= 1.0.24) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken…
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How to scan text documents from the command line?

I like the way simple-scan produces small pdf files for text documents. Alas, since I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 (and still on 18.04), the keys C-1 (scan 1 page) and C-n no longer work, so I have to move the mouse (which is slow), so I am looking for…
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How to detect HP Scanjet G2410 Scanner if it is not being detected automatically?

I have a scanner HP Scanjet G2410 (Flatbed Style) and I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the hope that my PC will automatically detect it but 'Simple Scan' application showed a message as 'No scanners detected'. So I went to Software…
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Using duplex scan of HP OfficeJet Pro 8710

I'm having trouble understanding the process of getting the scanner of my HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 running completely on Ubuntu 17.04. Here is what I have done: I checked the hplip page for the printer. It says that Scan is supported. I installed hplip…
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