Buster->Bullseye scrambled xsane settings
I just upgraded my main machine from Buster to Bullseye; I have two more
machines that I upgraded recently and they're running well so I decided
to go for it on the machine on which I do my important work. The
upgrade went smoothly and all in all works quite well.
But then I tried scanning. I do a lot of scanning to PDF using xsane
and an Epson WF-2760 all-in-one. Most of my scans are of printed
documents in black and white (I use the Lineart setting in xsane).
Last night I tried to do some scans for the first time since the
upgrade. The xsane windows looked different from before; they opened in
different locations on the screen and had different contents. The scans
themselves looked nothing like what I was used to; the contrast was
washed out (and adjusting the contrast slider doesn't help). When I
scan a cheque the background causes random dots to appear - and there's
no threshold slider to adjust this.
The main xsane window added sliders for gamma, brightness, and contrast,
which I didn't have before; there was no threshold slider, although
on a subsequent run this slider appeared but seemed to have no effect.
I've been getting inconsistent results - on one invocation the gamma,
contrast, brightness, and threshold sliders disappeared, and now they
all appear except for threshold.
I tried copying the previous version of xsane back into /usr/bin from
the backup I took before the upgrade, but that made no difference.
Ditto for the configuration files in ~/.sane/xsane. This suggests
that it's not the new version of xsane itself that is broken.
I know this all sounds rather incoherent, but I don't seem to be getting
coherent results. Is there an xsane expert who can help me restore the
ability to scan black-and-white documents? (Colour and grayscale scans
work beautifully, but that's not what I need right now.) If all else
fails, is there another scanning package I could use in the meantime?
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