Hi, On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:02 AM m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An easier mechanism might be to comment out all the backends you are not > using in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > > allan > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:54 AM Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote: > >> Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> writes: >> > If you don't specify the scanner to scanimage with the -d option, then >> > it will poll around all the backends to obtain a list of the available >> > scanners first. This typically can take quite a good few seconds. >> >> This is the explanation, thanks! Glad I asked. Now this is fun: >> >> scanimage -o out.png -d "epjitsu:libusb:003:007" --resolution 200dpi >> >> :D > > I concur. Since you have a USB connection, the device name is likely to change every time you power cycle the scanner as the USB subsystem will assign a different address. Leaving only the fujitsu backend available in the dll.conf file, the startup delay will be next to nothing. Cheers, Ralph