A user who has difficulties getting a scanner to work with xsane may wind up running the program sane-find-scanner to get some information.
There, they may be greeted by this: # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. In my case scanimage -L told me nothing and as to the "backend's manpage" I had no clue where to look. Rather RTFM-ish, I think. And so unnecessary: You guys also maintain two very helpful web pages, http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#SCANNERS and http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html which ultimately led me to the answer, but I wasted much time trying this and that before I found them. Why don't you simply refer to one of these webpages in the message that sane-find-scanner presents? In my case (the Epson Perfection V-300 Photo scanner) it turned out be an issue of installing some drivers. I could have solved this in five minutes, had a link to your excellent web pages been present in the output of sane-find-scanner. Thank you, Steve Cohen
