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Old June 13th 19, 02:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
AK[_4_]
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Default Windows scanner that works with wine

On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 12:05:25 AM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:

Thanks, your search for an answer is impressive. :-)

The link you gave is exactly what I used to get the scanner to scan to a pdf
or jpg.

That is all it does, with no features like changing the scanning resolution etc.

It would be nice to find a workaround to needing an admin account to install software.

Wine lets users "install" many Windows programs.

But on thinking about it, I do not think a Windows scanner program would see the drivers
that were installed by Linux Ubuntu. One program could not find the TWAIN drivers.

Andy


I agree with this.

WINE is limited in terms of what subsystems extend "outside of WINE".

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The "Advanced Mode" has an output resolution setting...

https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkEuA.png

The description of the Windows version implies that resolution
setting is actually the scanning resolution.

https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/ind...howDraft=false

On my old scanner, the scanning resolution setting was
important, because the scanner had a "descreen plugin"
which reduced aliasing between the "dots" on newsprint
and the "dots" of the scanner itself. I don't see any
mention of descreen in this case.

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"In terminal, I successfully install xsane by typing

sudo apt install xsane

. Then I type xsane to open the GUI and then a little
window saying 'scanning for devices' pops up, then

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wl3br.png

window opens. For some reason, xsane doesn't want to work"

And you can see in the error dialog, xsane is trying to
reach an IP address when it fails.

So far, I'm not seeing the "conventional level of control".

I think the Canon package is supposed to support this.
It should work.

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On my Scanner and Linux, the scanner was "supported" but the
driver went nuts. Even if you stopped scanning, the driver
was still moving the bed around. The software didn't even
seem to know the scanner was multi-pass, and it had a "cal
pass" where it reads a white strip under the table to
calibrate the color from the CCFL tubes. (It would take
about 20 minutes for the tubes to stop shifting, and
apparently the scanner was checking for this anyway.)
The Linux driver didn't seem to know about this, and it
was "doing crazy stuff". At least it didn't damage the
transport, which is always a possibility with "nuts drivers".
On some electromechanical devices, timing is important.

Paul


I made a post in the official Canon forum.

I asked if they had a fix or were planning one for their Linux drivers.
Scangear in particular.

Sometimes Linux is treated like a step child by hardware companies.


Andy
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