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Scan documents longer than 14 inches with Brother scanner using SANE in Linux?

I have a Brother MFC-L3750CDW. I would like to scan documents longer than 14 inches (long receipts) from the feeder. I have found many articles on Brother's website for how to do this with windows drivers, but not surprisingly they don't give Linux…
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Utility for scanning stacks of double-sided documents

I have a simplex scanner with document feeder, and am looking for the best way to scan double-sided notes. It would be useful to be able to scan the same stack twice, once flipped, and have a utility automatically interleave the scanned images. …
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Can SANE daemon communicate with a remote network device that has a scanner attached?

My understanding is that SANE is a service that sits between the user level programs and the physical scanner itself, and that SANE provides an API to the programs that it then relays to the physical machine? (not sure if Im right about that) The…
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scanner shows up in xsane under a false device address

i have a problem communicating with my Brother DCP-8040 which can be used for scannig and printing as well. I cannot really tell what the problem really is but here is the output of commands that i used to identify the problem. firstly, since the…
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failed to start scanner: invalid argument (xsane)

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 and now my Brother MFC 210C won't scan (printing is fine). I installed the following packages according to the instructions on the Brother…
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default dpi resolutions with Xsane

when I scan a document with Xsane, I wonder why there are only these resolutions: 75,150,300,600,1200,2400,4800. Why is there no resolution 100dpi? 75 is a little bit to small but 150 is already to big. Is there any reason why there are not any…
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Installing package (xsane) without dependencies

I had to install the sane drivers with git due to my CanoScan 8800F to recognize the scanner. Scanning with "scanimage" works like a charm. But I'd prefer xsane to have a GUI. The problem is to install xsane without libsane dependencies. Otherwise…
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how to scan very long document with scan snap

I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500. I want to scan a document (sales slip) that is overly long (about 50cm) but quite narrow. So, I hoped the scanner would just pull it through and give me the whole image as one. Alternatively it would have been fine…
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How to scan using Canon MF3010 in Debian

Recently I bought a Canon MF3010 All in one printer. I got the printing to work after installing the drivers from Canon's website and adding it in CUPS. How ever I am unable to make use of the scanner. I tried SANE Output of sane-find-scanner : #…
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XSane and ImageMagick automatically installed in my PC

While I was using GIMP, XSane and ImageMagick were automatically installed in my PC? GIMP has probably done it. How did GIMP installed them? GIMP did not even asked my permission. Similarly, few months ago some software were installing other…
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scanimage on ADF not working with --batch

I want to scan multiple file with an ADF. This is my device: luca@luca-server:~$ sudo scanimage -L device `xerox_mfp:libusb:001:006' is a Samsung SCX-3400 Series multi-function peripheral If I run this command: luca@luca-server:~$ sudo scanimage…
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Xsane is unable to detect scanner device

I'm using debian lenny, I bought a new Hp officejet j4500 scanner but the xsane is unable to detect the scanner. It says device not found. If I run xsane as root it detects and works properly it is obvious. I have added the user to scanner,saned…
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How to debug xsane "no devices available" error on 64 bit Ubuntu 10.04

I have a Brother MFC-J615W printer/scanner and I wish to use the scanning feature across a network with a computer running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed the drivers from the Brother website and followed all of the instructions, and printing…
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Weird noise while scanning, using scanimage and a Canon Lide 35

I'm trying to scan a bunch of images, using xsane's scanimage : scanimage --format=tiff --batch --batch-prompt This command scans the first picture perfectly, but as soon as I press enter, the scanner makes a weird noise, and the scanning "arm"…
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Creating symbolic link of xsane to GIMP's plug-in folder does not let use it as plug-in

As it is stated by the official xsane documentation, I created a symbolic link by the following command (in my case the folders are a bit different): ln -s /usr/bin/xsane /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ The link is there. Executing the above command…
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