On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:24:36 -0700 Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> 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. I recently had some trouble getting xsane to find my networked Brother HL-2280DW. I eventually got it to work by adding "brother4" to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, following the directions from the ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SANE/Scanner-specific_problems#Network_Scanning Celejar
