Also, for anyone else with this problem, this works in XSane when I set the scan size to DIN A4 port.
On 01/08/2013 11:19 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Evil Mr Henry writes: > >> Basically, "scanimage -v -d epson2:libusb:003:005 --format png > >> outfile.png" works, but "scanimage -v --mode color -d >> epson2:libusb:003:005 --format png > outfile.png" throws the classic >> "invalid argument" > > Shouldn't that be "--mode Color", with a capital C? > >> (It is, in fact, an Epson Perfection 610 USB scanner.) >> >> This is a new computer; the scanner worked on my old computer in much >> the same setup. > > What version of sane backends and which backend did you use there? > >> Running Mint (Ubuntu) 64bit, Sane 1.0.22-7ubuntu1 >> >> The following is the output after setting "export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255": >> >> scanimage -v --mode color -d epson2:libusb:003:005 --format png > >> outfile.png > > I've gone through the log and it's clear from that that this is a bug in > the epson2 backend. It fails to take into account the line distance > when computing the maximum scan area, leading to a maximum that is too > big. You can work around the issue by using "--br-y 297.18" (i.e. 11.7 > inches). > > Hope this helps, >
