Using a CanoScan LIDE 25 with sane and Ubuntu
In fiesty fawn support for CanoScan LIDE 25 is broken. The scanner gets identified properly and goes thru the motions of scanning and has an progress indicator on the xsane window but the scanned image results in a blank window. This is a documented bug and might be fixed with the next release.
a work around to this is to use the command line version of sane, here is how to do it
1. plug the scanner into the USB port and run the following command “sane-find-scanner “
you should see the follwing lines as pat of the output
found USB scanner (vendor=0×04a9 [Canon], product=0×2220 [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:001:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend’s manpage.
2. type in “scanimage -L” at the terminal. you should see the follwing lines as part of the output
device `plustek:libusb:001:002′ is a Canon LiDE25 USB flatbed scanner
3. you can now use the following command to get a scan
“scanimage –format=tiff –mode=Gray –depth=16 –resolution=100dpi -l 0 -t 0 -x 215 -y 215 >> test”
you can set different options for the mode, depth and resolution to get better quality scans. to see the various options available try the“scanimage –help” command.
Update : I found a better method of fixing the scanner issue on this site
While the solution provided fixes any scanner broken during an update from previous versions to feisty the solution also works for fresh install of feisty as well.
here is how you fix the scanner in a nutshell
1. install scanbuttond using apt
2. list usb devices : lsusb
3. run scanbuttond : scanbuttond -r 1000000
3. list available imaging devices : scanimage -L
4. Test basic scanner operation : scanimage -T -d (Append output of scanimage -L here)
for e.g for my scanner the command looks like this “scanimage -T -d plustek:libusb:001:002″
5. Test gui scanner operation : xsane
The above link gives you more detailed instructions, you should refer to that site if you didn’t understand the 5 steps above.
Bless you, this just stopped me from buying a new scanner.
Stephen
June 17, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Thanks Stephen
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cipher27
June 18, 2007 at 8:43 am
Your link is broken, correct is:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fixing-a-scanner-broken-by-the-feisty-upgrade.html
Axel Bojer
June 27, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I have been attempting to get my Canon Lide 30 working with Feisty for months. I finally found the solution in your web site. This solution should be publicized on the Ubuntu site or the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. I had to wade through hundreds of web pages before finding your incisive, and effective solution. Thanks again. James Fortier
James Fortier
June 29, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Thanks James all credits for this belong to Ubuntugeek, I have just mirrored the steps. Am really glad this helped.
cipher27
June 29, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Many thanks for this. Bonzer job !!
My cousin asked me to build him a computer so as they (husband and wife) are N00bs I opted to go dual boot Ubuntu (i386) and XP.
Naturally I wanted the Ubuntu side to be so useful they never needed to boot into windows.
I couldn’t believe it when the scanner they chose (this one) turned out to have this problem. It would mean they had to boot into windows…. And thats a bad thing… They might decide to stay there !!
Job cured now.. Even installed TurboPrint for the canon ip5300 printer.
Paul
Peterborough, UK
Outcast
September 13, 2007 at 5:49 am
Edit to my comment….
After reboot… Back to square 1
After using the cli it works again so how do we make the cli initialisation resident ?
Paul
Peterborough, UK
Outcast
September 13, 2007 at 6:01 am
Hi peter,
I have started using kooka to scan documents using this scanner and it works without a hitch. try using sudo apt-get install kooka to install it.
Hope this helps
harish
cipher27
September 13, 2007 at 11:50 am
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