Hi Troels Yep. That is exactly my plan. I should be able to get away with the basic B&W or colour, single or multi-page from the feeder, maybe a switch for output format and have it scan to a network folder for my users. Because with the best will in the world users will be users and Xsane has a lot of things to configure.
As for the Canon provided windows driver it is listed not compatible with windows 7 or 8 and testing confirmed this and we are running 7 across the board for our desktops and laptops. I didn't know cygwin was capable of that as I have never used cygwin before and have no idea how to set it up and configure it. Thus I headed straight for Linux as it usually has better support for "obsolete" hardware. Thanks James On 19 September 2014 11:44, Troels Thomsen <troels.pil.thom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One question: > Why do you need a head-unit for the scanner? > You should be able to compile and use SANE and XSane under windows , > through cygwin (or msys?). > > Ok , with the cygwin+sane+XSane solution, all users at the office will > need to install some software in order to scan from the device, > but that was the case with the cannon driver also, right? > Is it because you want the buttons on the Rasberry Pi to scan pages, and > dump data in a predefined folder , e.g. on a network share? > > Good luck ! > > /Troels > > > 2014-09-19 12:32 GMT+02:00 James Herrick <wideb...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a Canon DR-7080C at work that I can no longer use with supported >> versions of windows because the driver support only goes up to windows >> vista. So I am giving SANE a try as it seems a shame to can the scanner as >> it is still in very good condition and is a good quality unit. >> >> The supported hardware list shows it as untested but someone on this >> mailing list has had a recent success with a basic test ( >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2014-August/032565.html >> ). >> >> I am new to using SANE. I'm fairly green in the Linux dept too but I am >> learning and am an IT Tech by trade from a primarily windows environment >> and I am wondering what is required to get it to a tested working, or not, >> status and if I can help with the testing at all? I am willing to use a few >> lunch hours and some time after work to help. >> >> So far scanimage -L and scanimage -T the same results as the linked email >> above. Using Xsane I can scan a single page but not if it is placed on the >> document feeder. That doesn't seem to want to feed so far regardless of the >> few settings i have tried. Xsane seems to only be able to do one scan at a >> time before refusing to do the second. I have yet to have a bash at the >> command line. >> >> For my purposes I don't mind if it is only command line compatible as I >> am using a raspberry pi as my header unit for the scanner. This means I can >> rig up some hardware buttons to the GPIO pins in a nice case and have some >> predefined scanning scripts to bring the scanner back to life. >> >> Kind regards >> >> James >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> > >
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