xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner
I just got a Brother ADS-2700W sheet-fed scanner and am trying
to access it from xsane. I've done a lot of flatbed scanning,
first with an HP 3970, and lately with an Epson WF-2650 all-in-one,
but I have a lot of old manuals I want to scan and upload to
Bitsavers, and a sheet feeder will speed the process along.
The Brother got a lot of good reviews so I decided to give it a try.
It offers many options, such as e-mail, [S]FTP, etc. over Ethernet,
wi-fi, and USB. But so far, I haven't been able to get xsane to
recognize it. My wife tried to get at it from her Macbook (which
accesses the Epson with no trouble), but had no luck either.
It's not a connectivity issue - the scanner happily connects
to my wi-fi and gets an IP address, and I can access it from
a web browser and get at all of its configuration screens.
But neither xsane nor my wife's Macbook can see it.
The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a
USB flash drive. It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets,
scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick.
If all else fails, I can work with it that way. But I'd
really like to let xsane manage the process.
I'm beginning to wonder, though, whether fashions are changing.
Scanners nowadays seem to want to push data to a server, rather
than being commanded to scan by a computer. Is this really
happening? If so, whither (or should that be "wither") xsane?
If anyone has gotten one of these newfangled machines to work
as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets.
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