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? On 13-08-30 01:55 AM, Mike McCord wrote: > With Ubuntu 12.04-X64, I am unable to obtain a driver for the HP 5590 > scanner. All attempts at web searches for help have failed. > Using Opensuse 12.3-X64, Simple scan works fine. The output from the > scanner is very good. Is there some way to get the scanner to work in > Ubuntu? I really like the Ubuntu release. It was fantastic to find the > exfat driver that came out for flash drives. > >
