Mike -- Have been using the HP ScanJet 5590 USB scanner using the
packaged version of sane and gscan2pdf in 64-bit Ubuntu in 12.04, 12.10,
and 13.04 without issue. 'Works fine here'...
With the scanner plugged in and powered up, what do 'lsusb | grep -i
scanner' and 'sane-find-scanner' give you?
Hi Gerard,
On 13-04-13 06:34 AM, Gerard Klaver wrote:
> For the HP N8460,
>
> Did you check for the sane-avision backend, IIRC some scanners with an
> avision C7 chipset are supported with this backend.
Thanks for the pointer.
'sane-find-scanner' didn't find the scanner when I ran it as root. I
On 13-04-13 06:34 AM, Gerard Klaver wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 17:09 -0400, Random Quip Generator wrote:
>> This is a similar model to mine ('[#313955] HP Scanjet N8460 (with
>> ADF)'), and when I look up his model on the HP web site, I see pointers
>> to the
This is a similar model to mine ('[#313955] HP Scanjet N8460 (with
ADF)'), and when I look up his model on the HP web site, I see pointers
to the N8460 scanner as well.
I would definitely concur with Wouter's fecal characterization of the
available Windows scanner software. Even XP's own scanner p
As a follow up, I opened up the scanner today to find the PCB and take
photographs of what I found. I've uploaded the pics to Picasa, primarily
showing a large chip in the centre of the PCB with the text 'Avision
C7C' on it.
https://picasaweb.google.com/115487175921649988988/VariousHardware
I don
Greetings,
On 13-02-11 12:34 AM, stef wrote:
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> ... Adding support for such a scanner
> requires having one and doing reverse-engineering of the USB protocol by
> analyzing how it works under windows.
In my brief reading of sane-devel, this advice seems to come up fairly
frequently. As it r
Added 3 USB captures via usbmon.
1.startup - capture taken during initial contact to scanner by Windows'
scanner application
2.get_preview - capture taken during preview image scan
3.final - capture taken during the final scan for export
My current set up is Win XP running as a VirtualBox guest,
(nailora from #sane suggested I post this here. Thanks!)
I've recently acquired an HP Scanjet N8460, which I note is not on the
list of devices on the sane-project web site. Looking at the 'supported
devices' page shows that similar models appear to use the avision
driver. I'm plugging it into a l
