I've been using Sane and XSane for several years now, with great success. My Sane and XSane come from the Ubuntu repositories (Lucid Lynx).
I have an Epson GT8300 flatbed scanner, and all is good. Today I happened upon an article leading me to realize that there were some command line tools for Sane that I had never used. When I did 'sane-find-scanner', it found this: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011e [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:017 When I do scanimage -L, I get this: device `epson2:libusb:001:017' is a Epson GT-8300 flatbed scanner All very nice, but when I do this: scanimage --device epson2:libusb:001:017, I get a long long timeout and then, eventually: scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O It also leaves the scanner in a bad state. I have to power cycle it before XSane can find it again. Not sure what else to offer for info. Any suggestions welcome.
