The proprietary software does not use sane, and if it currently has control of the scanner, sane will not be able to work.
allan On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:12 PM Media Mouth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well noting yet. Any reason to think that using the proprietary software > that comes with a Fujitsu scanner "ScanSnap.app" might do something that > interferes with SANE. (I'm suspect SANE is their underlying engine) > > We are and have been able to scan using ScanSnap, and for a brief moment > yesterday we were also able to run `scanimage` and save a .pnm > > On May 7, 2021, at 12:05 PM, m. allan noah <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unknown- look for OSX system logs that might include USB related errors. > > allan > > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:09 PM Media Mouth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So we're apparently back to the original question... > > "Re: [sane-devel] scanimage -L detects no scanners / sane-find-scanner does > -- on MacOS" > > `sane-find-scanner` returns `found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [Fujitsu], > product=0x132b [ScanSnap iX500]) at libusb:000:002` > and > `scanimage -L` returns `No scanners were identified. If you were expecting > something different` etc. > > It was after your request for the stdout of `SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=50 > SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_CONFIG=10 scanimage -L` > that it suddenly started working, so I wondered if by some magic that was > waking something up, but running it again made not difference this go around. > > Any ideas? > > > On May 7, 2021, at 6:26 AM, MediaMouth <[email protected]> wrote: > > It did ... and then it didn't. Right after successfully scanning a page, > subsequent attempts, using the same command, failed with error "invalid > argument". > > On May 7, 2021, at 05:14, m. allan noah <[email protected]> wrote: > > "device `fujitsu:ScanSnap iX500:330189' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 scanner" > > looks like it works? > > > > > -- > "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge > of my hand" > > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
