Hi first let me say thanks to Witold Paluszynski for your assistance and I will try your suggestion later. Also thanks to Allan Noah here is the an edit from sane-find-scanner
found SCSI scanner "CANON IX-27015C 1.15" at /dev/sg0 # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x021c [USB Scanner], chip=GT-6816) at libusb:001:005 found USB scanner (vendor=0x0bc7, product=0x0004) at libusb:001:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. but when I run scanimage -L it only shows scanimage -L device `gt68xx:libusb:001:005' is a Mustek Bearpaw 1200 CU Plus flatbed scanner any further assistance is wellcome, thanks John