Hi Sane acknowledged perfectly my scanner Epson GT 7000 and it up to the version 9.10 of Ubuntu. With the version 10.04 of Ubuntu the scanner is acknowledged as a generic scanner. Here is the answer of scanimage:
********** joel at Fixe:~$ scanimage -L device `epson2:/dev/sg2' is a Epson generic flatbed scanner joel at Fixe:~$ scanimage --version scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.20; backend version 1.0.20 ********** ********** joel at Fixe:~$ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. found SCSI processor "EPSON SCANNER GT-7000 1.14" at /dev/sg2 # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage...... ********** Consequence is that I can use the scanner only in it's basic functions. Particularly I cannot use the adapter any more for negative and slides because alone the flatbed source is offered. Thank you for your help J-Jo?l