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Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner



On 02.04.2021 06:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2021-04-01 3:51 a.m., Brian Potkin wrote:

Hello Charlie,

It would appear that you are not subscribed to debian-user. Have you
seen all the replies to your post that await you there?

Yes, I have.  I just haven't had time to act on them.  I did download
a driver from the Brother site but it had no effect.  I suspect there's
something I'll have to do with xsane to get it to find the scanner.
I've poked that driver a bit and it looks like only USB-connection is well supported, and there is no "Scan from your Computer (Linux)" section in the manual either. [1]
There is a mention about "conf_ip" utility, but it looks like Brother began to implement "Direct Scan over Network" feature and never finished.
You might try to follow the instructions from "How to Install" section [2] and setup IP address of the scanner on PC:
    $ sudo conf_ip 192.168.xxx.xxx

All things considered, it might be indeed easier to setup FTP/SFTP or CIFS (Samba) server on your PC and create a scanner profile to scan directly into FTP directory or SMB share. [3]
Even workflow looks more efficient that way:
[Go to scanner] > [Place documents] > [Select profile] > [Start scanning] > [Retrieve documents] > [Go back to PC]
In comparison to:
[Go to scanner] > [Place documents] > [Go back to PC] > [Select profile] > [Start scanning] > [Go to scanner] > [Retrieve documents] > [Go back to PC]


[1] https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/htmldoc/ads/cv_ads2200/uke/index.html?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=ads2700w_us_eu_as#GUID-323B4D6E-6CAF-4A35-B1AC-7F8F110EAE06_25
[2] https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=ads2700w_us_eu_as&os=128&dlid=dlf103479_000&flang=4&type3=566
[3] https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/htmldoc/ads/cv_ads2200/uke/index.html?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=ads2700w_us_eu_as#GUID-286EDD29-0309-47AD-82F6-94D735A816D0_36
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With kindest regards, Alexander.

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