On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 12:51:04PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 06, 2020 12:29:56 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 12:17:23PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > > > Is there a simple program to use a scanner (CanoScan LIDE 700F) on any of > > > Wheezy, Jessie, or Buster? It needs to have the ability to crop an > > > image. > > > > xsane or simple-scan. > > > > > I dread the idea of trying to set it up in CUPS, in fact, iirc, last time > > > I tried it in CUPS (which was quite a while ago (5 years? longer?)), I > > > could not find a driver (either there was no driver, or maybe there was > > > a "maybe" driver (a driver that might work for several different > > > scanners, but did not work for me -- that was probably under Wheezy)). > > > (If CUPS is the only possibility, I probably won't even try, partly > > > because I'm in something of a hurry.) > > > > CUPS hasn't anything to do with scanning. > > Thanks for the reply! > > Yes, you're right (of course). It must have been SANE that I tried all those > years ago. Someone else suggested SANE + XSANE and suggested a page where I > could check for a driver (h-node) (or compatibility): > > https://h-node.org/scanners/catalogue/en/1/1/Canon- > Inc./undef/undef/undef/compatibility/undef > > I checked / searched there -- no listing for the CanoScan LIDE 700F or > anything close to it (I tried a variety of search terms). (A few CanoScans, > but nothing that looked close to the LIDE 700F (based on model numbers).) According to this [1] man page, the sane-genesys backend supports your model. No first-hand experience, though... > I'll look into simple-scan. Simple-scan is also based on libsane (as Xsane is). It also depends on all those "desktop goodies" as dbus-session, xdg-utils, gsettings and friends, which you might like -- or not. So it may be called "simple" but Xsane is definitely simpler -- although most definitely not as shiny. Cheers [1] http://sane-project.org/man/sane-genesys.5.html -- t
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