Re: [sane-devel] Error scanning with Canon Lide 100

2018-08-01 Thread Kelly Price
I have this scanner. I'm using the same version on Gentoo and I'm using xsane. It's been rock solid. What DPI are you using? Is it set to 8-bit color or 16-bit color? On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:32 AM, dnilabs e.U wrote: > hi guys! im having trouble with my canon lide 100, it has this annoying

Re: [sane-devel] [sane-announce] XSane source code now hosted at GitLab.com

2019-02-20 Thread Kelly Price
And this is where I'm glad I run a source-compiled distro (Gentoo). I have the last latest release source (xsane-0.999) and some patches developed by the Gentoo staff/volunteers. That may help out with cleaning things up. Here's the links from a mirror:

Re: [sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE 220... on a Raspberry Pi.

2019-05-20 Thread Kelly Price
Well, here's the other side. When I used scanimage on the Pi "locally" it works. But when I (supposedly) set up saned on it and then use xsane on my PC... it fails with the "invalid argument" error. On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:33 AM Johannes Meixner wrote: > > > He

Re: gscan2pdf v2.5.6 released

2019-09-11 Thread Kelly Price
Quick question: Can it load in pre-scanned PDFs to do OCR? I have some printouts to convert. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:05 PM Jeff wrote: > > gscan2pdf - A GUI to produce a multipage PDF or DjVu from a scan. > > http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ > > Five clicks are required to scan several pages

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 220

2019-07-18 Thread Kelly Price
First, what version of the backend are you using? (scanimage -V will give you this). Second, how is your scanner connected to the PC? I also have a LiDE 220 and I had to get a dedicated USB 2.0 card -- a USB 2.0 port on your motherboard won't work if it's using a USB 3.0+ chipset to handle it.

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 - DPI > 1200

2019-06-30 Thread Kelly Price
Just as a sanity check, is the LiDE 220 plugged into a USB 2.0 port on your motherboard? Or on an add-on card? On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 3:16 PM Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2019-06-30 14:10, kamp0...@arcor.de wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > > > the scanner is not scanning on high DPI Scans

Re: [sane-devel] What's local_only and what's not?

2019-11-12 Thread Kelly Price
Lets take it from a user perspective for a minute. "Local" we shall keep defined as "directly attached to the computer SANE is running on." Further defined, it can be over serial, parallel, USB, SCSI, Bluetooth, bitbanged pins, doesn't matter as long as you don't hit the TCP/IP network stack.

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-10-08 Thread Kelly Price
I have this scanner. I'm a bit of a mixed bag here. Most of my work has hovered around 600dpi. Photos may need more, but that's a rare occurrence. It's been ether sketches or artwork. And yes, I'm scanning in color. There's a good argument against telling the scanner to scan in greyscale or

Re: [sane-devel] Getting a Canon LiDE 120 scanner going ?

2020-02-23 Thread Kelly Price
For a bit of a simplicity sake, try this from the command line: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xsane If you have Gimp installed, this will also add the XSane option in the File >> Create menu. Select the "Device Dialog box" option

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Canoscan LiDE 400 support in Slackware

2020-01-10 Thread Kelly Price
Slackware... man, that was the first distro I used... I wonder what... Version 14.2... TWENTY SIXTEEN?!? *checks change logs* Okay, It's at a semi-decent kernel and sane was updated to 1.0.28 on August 1st 2019. Are you using this on a USB 3.0 port, or a USB 2.0 port backed by the xhci driver?

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Canoscan LiDE 400 support in Slackware

2020-01-11 Thread Kelly Price
this in my PC: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RL8V7E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8=1 On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:14 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, Kelly Price wrote: > > > Slackware... man, that was the first distro I used... I wonder what... >

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Canoscan LiDE 400 support in Slackware

2020-01-11 Thread Kelly Price
It worked around the problem on the 220. The 400 may need some research. On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 9:00 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020, Kelly Price wrote: > > > You fall into the same category I do with my LiDE 220. It somehow just > > doesn't like USB 3.x p

Re: [sane-devel] Release PPA for Debian/Ubuntu

2020-01-05 Thread Kelly Price
t; https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > Rolf > > > Am 04.01.20 um 23:52 schrieb Kelly Price: > > Anyone have a PPA of the latest releases (w/o any additions from > > Github)? I've switched from Gentoo to Xub

[sane-devel] Release PPA for Debian/Ubuntu

2020-01-04 Thread Kelly Price
Anyone have a PPA of the latest releases (w/o any additions from Github)? I've switched from Gentoo to Xubuntu on my main rig now and getting things back together. -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://redwolf.ws

Re: [sane-devel] Problem with Sane over network

2020-04-12 Thread Kelly Price
This may not be a SANE problem but a networking problem. You have 192.168.10.0/24 for your PCs and 192.168.5.0/24 for the Pi. I assume you have something a bit better than a commercial-grade home router/firewall -- IE an actual firewall (Cisco/Juniper). The simple solution is to put the Pi on

Re: [sane-devel] Red tint on scans in XSane & Skanlite

2020-05-17 Thread Kelly Price
Hey Freso, Can you try using XSane via Gimp? (If you don't know, once in Gimp, Right-Click (or menu) >> File >> Create >> XSane >> Device selection) If it still gives you the red tint when it scans into Gimp, then we'll know it's XSane. On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 5:14 AM Frederik “Freso” S.

Re: [sane-devel] SANE Backends 1.0.31 released / Goodbye

2020-09-02 Thread Kelly Price
Awesome. I got a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB set up with Ubuntu Arm64. Going to attach my Cintiq and LiDE 200 to it and test it out as soon as I can. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 2:08 PM Rolf Bensch wrote: > > Hi Kelly, > > Am 02.09.20 um 14:52 schrieb Kelly Price: > > On Wed, Sep 2, 20

Re: [sane-devel] SANE Backends 1.0.31 released / Goodbye

2020-09-02 Thread Kelly Price
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Just thought I'd let you know that Rolf, Ralph and I are working > off-list on getting the maintenance of this transferred to Ralph > and myself. > Good to hear. Will there be an arm build as well with the new PPA? -- Kelly "STrRedWolf"

Re: [sane-devel] Problem with new Canon iSensys MF746Cx

2020-09-08 Thread Kelly Price
magemagick for is the conversion of the huge .tiff out of the > scanner to a still big, but acceptable in most cases, .pdf. > > On 08.09.20 16:53, Kelly Price wrote: > > I take it you're scanning text for OCR? > > > > Consider it line art, and take some advice from Sea

Re: [sane-devel] Problem with new Canon iSensys MF746Cx

2020-09-08 Thread Kelly Price
I take it you're scanning text for OCR? Consider it line art, and take some advice from Sean Michael Robinson in the Cerberus The Aardvark Restoration Project. http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2017/02/paper-to-pixel-to-paper-again-part-five.html In short: * Scan in 24-bit color. It doesn't

Re: [sane-devel] Problem with new Canon iSensys MF746Cx

2020-09-08 Thread Kelly Price
"Mail" in this case means postal mail. Not e-mail. On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:29 AM Alexander Pevzner wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > > On 9/8/20 6:09 PM, Andrea Croci wrote: > > no, I'm not scanning text for OCR, I receive some documents per Mail > > that I need to sign, scan and send back. When the

Re: [sane-devel] SANE Backends 1.0.31 released / Goodbye / Ubuntu PPA

2020-09-04 Thread Kelly Price
Is work being done for sane-release? On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 8:05 AM Rolf Bensch wrote: > > Hi all, > > Am 02.09.20 um 14:49 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: > > Hi all, > > > > Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > > > >> Ralph Little writes: > >> > >>> What will happen to your PPAs? Are you planning to hand that

Re: [sane-devel] Question SANE and Canon Scanner

2020-08-25 Thread Kelly Price
Have you tried Rolf's PPA? sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade The -dev packages usually install headers and such that allow folks to program against libsane. At worst, uninstall the Mint versions and use the PPA. On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at

Re: [sane-devel] Sandboxing scanner applications

2020-09-19 Thread Kelly Price
The question I have is... how strong is the Flatpak sandbox? Will it allow such a deal? On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 7:42 AM Alexander Pevzner wrote: > > On 9/19/20 12:25 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Sealed memfds, passed via D-Bus, that's 1/2GB in all :) > > If D-Bus can pass an arbitrary file

Re: [sane-devel] sane 1.0.31 backend version not supported lineart. Why?...

2020-09-24 Thread Kelly Price
I'm going to present a few sides here, mainly as a user, so here's a long mail. Also, I'm going to define a few terms. * A "sketch" is just pencil on paper. Greyscale, essentially. (Colored pencils are a different matter) * A "lineart" or "inked piece" is ink on paper, with the pencils erased

Re: [sane-devel] Another merge request suggested for xSane: 'move selection' and 'move screen' drag modes

2020-06-08 Thread Kelly Price
Just an artist comment: following after Gimp is good, since most of the time we're scanning into Gimp. On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:42 PM Jörn-Ingo Weigert wrote: > > Thanks Maxim for your time to develop this! I'm happy to see after long time > that someone are starting to modernize XSane. > > For

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] Let's release 1.0.31 in August

2020-07-27 Thread Kelly Price
Can I agree that the Canon LiDE series have been f**king cool? I should get another for mobile work... On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:33 PM Sedat Dilek wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:12 PM Olaf Meeuwissen > wrote: > > > > Hi Sedat, > > > > Sedat Dilek writes: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at

Re: [sane-devel] SANE Feedback on Canon CanoScan LIDE 70

2020-12-06 Thread Kelly Price
You may have automatic color-correct turned on. This doesn't help a lot as you may think. Try this: 1. Install xsane (sudo apt-get install xsane) 2. Open up xsane (I do it through Gimp and tell it to go to the chooser) 3. Below the Gamma/Brightness/Contrast sliders, you'll have six buttons:

Re: [sane-devel] Completely supported scanner Canon CanoScan Lide 300 doesn't work

2021-01-03 Thread Kelly Price
I got a 220 myself and had to get the latest straight from the project's PPA. Are you using the SANE Project's PPA? If not: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade That should pull the latest sane packages (Ubuntu/Debian lags hard). Try it

Re: [sane-devel] IRC

2021-06-17 Thread Kelly Price
There's a bit of a dust-up between FreeNode and Libera.Chat that's casting FreeNode in a very bad light. If you were channel mod/admin on FreeNode, you're not anymore -- the new owners stripped that away and put in their bot without warning. I'd move. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:14 AM Wolfram

Re: [sane-devel] SANE PPA no longer working

2021-02-09 Thread Kelly Price
Switch over to the sane-project/sane-git PPA. https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git There's a sane-releases PPA if you want some stability. On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:04 AM David H. Durgee via sane-devel wrote: > > For the past several years I have kept current with the

Re: [sane-devel] CZUR type scanners with SANE?

2021-09-01 Thread Kelly Price
This sounds kinda like Internet Archive work. Let me ask Jason Scott for where to ask about what they use for scanning books. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM Graham Seaman wrote: > > I've been using a Canon flatbed scanner with SANE, but now need to scan > quite thick books I can't manage on

Re: [sane-devel] CZUR type scanners with SANE?

2021-09-01 Thread Kelly Price
to take the scan: https://youtu.be/8fcbP7lEdzY for how. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:51 AM Kelly Price wrote: > > This sounds kinda like Internet Archive work. Let me ask Jason Scott > for where to ask about what they use for scanning books. > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM Graha

Re: [sane-devel] Do not know where to turn to connect printer to computer OFF TOPIC

2021-08-05 Thread Kelly Price
This is served by HP's Linux drivers -- it's a rebranded HP laser printer. I think you can install the "printer-driver-hpcups" package to get the support back. Check with Linux Mint's forums for further details, On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:26 PM avengethecathars wrote: > > Hi > Please forgive

Re: [sane-devel] How o make genesys backend make use of symlink via udev-rule?

2021-08-06 Thread Kelly Price
First, run: sudo sane-find-scanner That'll check if the scanner is identified or not under the current SANE version you have. If that doesn't work, check that your scanner is supported and you're on the latest SANE version (you may need to use the PPA in Ubuntu). If that does work, then the

Re: [sane-devel] How o make genesys backend make use of symlink via udev-rule?

2021-08-06 Thread Kelly Price
istent USB device enumeration for my scanner. > > A already tried the > ALIASES option via dll.aliases. > > I wrote this script, which updates the > dll.aliases in /dev/sane.d > > - > #!/bin/bash > > ALIASFILE=/etc/sane.d/dll.ali > ases > > lsusb | grep LiDE | awk

Re: [sane-devel] Sane no longer works

2021-09-30 Thread Kelly Price
Are you using Ubuntu's version of SANE or the latest from the SANE-Releases PPA? If it's the former, switch to the latter: https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release In short: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release sudo apt-get update Then run package

Re: [sane-devel] Sane no longer works

2021-09-30 Thread Kelly Price
ng. I only have one scanner. What is this > first one at libusb:003:006 and why does the libusb:003:xxx for the real > scanner keep incrementing by 1 every time I run an app? > > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 7:44 PM Kelly Price wrote: >> >> Okay try this: >>

Re: [sane-devel] Sane no longer works

2021-09-30 Thread Kelly Price
> check the backend version now installed, and what results should I expect? > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 6:29 PM Kelly Price wrote: >> >> Are you using Ubuntu's version of SANE or the latest from the SANE-Releases >> PPA? >> >> If it's the former

Re: [sane-devel] Interactive use of scanner buttons

2021-12-02 Thread Kelly Price
Allan hit it there. You may have buttons that are exposed as USB keyboard or HID devices, or it may piggyback on the protocol being used for just scanning. You may need a system notification app on your desktop that integrates XSane (probably a localized saned over Unix sockets). That said... I

Re: [sane-devel] Interactive use of scanner buttons

2021-12-03 Thread Kelly Price
Well, that and if the access to the scanner is locked at the saned level, polling isn't going to tie it up and saned can always return a "We're busy scanning" signal. On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:03 AM m. allan noah wrote: > > Many backends are single threaded currently, so this would be a pretty >

Re: [sane-devel] Problem with Canon Lide 220 scanner / sane / genesys: Device busy after computer start

2021-12-15 Thread Kelly Price
These are from the PPA, right? On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:05 PM wrote: > > I'm experiencing problems with a Canon Lide 220 scanner. > Everything worked fine right without any tweaking when I was in an older > version of Linux Mint Mate Edition (based on Ubuntu). > Since I updated to Linux Mint

Re: [sane-devel] [sane-announce] SANE Backends 1.1.1 released

2022-03-13 Thread Kelly Price
Is anyone building this release on Ubuntu for the PPA? The PPA's lagging and it's even up to 22.10 at this time. On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 4:01 PM Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2022-02-09 11:29, Rolf Bensch wrote: > > Hi Povilas, > > > > I just had a look at git snapshots and found out that

Re: [sane-devel] Remove user authorization support from net backend / saned frontend?

2022-04-08 Thread Kelly Price
I think there's two issues here: The authentication and the at-the-wire security. The latter first, as I think it's more important. If I set up a saned server with scanner, load up a set of financial documents to scan, walk away to my PC, and then trigger the scanning... can someone on another

Re: [sane-devel] Remove user authorization support from net backend / saned frontend?

2022-04-08 Thread Kelly Price
On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 7:41 AM Johannes Meixner wrote: > Why? > I described why even some weak authentication > could be useful in a trusted environment. > Authentication is not encryption. Authentication is *access control*. Encryption is *data privacy*. Don't confuse the two. Remember, we

Re: [sane-devel] Ubuntu PPA b0rked?

2022-07-03 Thread Kelly Price
Negative on sane-git. I added the PPA and it’s still not finding sane-backend. Sent from my iPad > On Jul 3, 2022, at 6:36 PM, Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 2022-07-03 14:55, Kelly Price wrote: >> Emailing this “from the road” as I’m at (the tail end of)

[sane-devel] Ubuntu PPA b0rked?

2022-07-03 Thread Kelly Price
Emailing this “from the road” as I’m at (the tail end of) a convention and got some artwork to scan in. Just added the PPA… and still can’t install sane-backends. I dig into the PPA’s URL and find that the Packages lists are… empty. Zero bytes. Can someone check into it? Launchpad also has

Re: [sane-devel] Character encoding used for sane_strstatus() strings

2022-07-18 Thread Kelly Price
For Linux systems, C11 is a bit of the default as the Linux kernel now requires C11. So that would get all the major Linux distros. On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:48 AM John Scott wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 13:19 +0300, Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > > By the way, does the current assumption

Re: [sane-devel] UPDATE about: help to understand which of THESE scanner/printers is supported

2022-10-18 Thread Kelly Price
For now, yes. On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 AM M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 07:09:59 AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > This said, I have discovered that there are also packages by Canon itself: > > > >

Re: [sane-devel] UPDATE about: help to understand which of THESE scanner/printers is supported

2022-10-18 Thread Kelly Price
. Fioretti wrote: > > Hi Kelly, and thanks, with a couple questions on specific points: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 11:39:14 AM -0400, Kelly Price wrote: > > I can answer that from a user's perspective. My go-to for scanners is > > the LiDE series. > > > > Yes, the

Re: [sane-devel] UPDATE about: help to understand which of THESE scanner/printers is supported

2022-10-18 Thread Kelly Price
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 16:28, Kelly Price wrote: > > I would highly recommend a powered hub to guarantee full power to the > scanner, and a (surge-protected) power strip to get your PC's power in > reach. > > The sane-release PPA has "scanimage" in its packages. That h

Re: [sane-devel] UPDATE about: help to understand which of THESE scanner/printers is supported

2022-10-18 Thread Kelly Price
One of the devs, Ralph Little, says Ubuntu's repos have the latest, 1.1.1. He'll work on getting the sane-releases PPA sorted out as soon as he can. On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:02 PM Kelly Price wrote: > > For now, yes. > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 AM M. Fioretti wrote: > &g

Re: [sane-devel] UPDATE about: help to understand which of THESE scanner/printers is supported

2022-10-17 Thread Kelly Price
I can answer that from a user's perspective. My go-to for scanners is the LiDE series. Yes, they're USB powered because they use LED lighting. It allows them to sip power, so they're under the 5V 500mA limit. I've had these plugged in via a hub and now direct. Works nicely. And it's best if

Re: [sane-devel] Chained Network Sane?

2022-08-10 Thread Kelly Price
So basically you need a reverse proxy so that you can securely share a scanner. +1 as a feature in a separate "proxy" module, next to "net"... although... what scanner is this? On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:37 AM Guy B wrote: > > So, I went ahead and gave this a try (specifically, option B) and it

[sane-devel] Canon imageFORMULA R10 support

2022-07-31 Thread Kelly Price
So I got myself a new scanner: A Canon imageFORMULA R10. It scans my 9" x 12" sketch pages nicely. Plug-and-play in Windows. Time to get this puppy going in Linux. ;) Just for fun... root@redwolf:~# sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the #

Re: [sane-devel] Ubuntu PPA b0rked?

2022-07-31 Thread Kelly Price
to open up a new thread here... On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 6:17 AM Ulf Zibis wrote: > > By the way: sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net is rejecting my email domain, > so I send with CC: > > Am 04.07.22 um 02:26 schrieb Kelly Price: > > Negative on sane-git. I added the PPA and i

Re: [sane-devel] NeatDesk ND-1000 Scanner to work in Linux Mint

2024-05-24 Thread Kelly Price
Hey John. I'm not part of the dev team, but long-time Linux user. I'm in Linux Mint and using a Canon LiDE 300. I'd get that if you haven't gotten the NeatDesk ND-1000. If you want to help add the NeatReceipts NeatDesk ND-1000, check here for some of the info: