stevecoh1 said: Okay, working now.
Here are the steps I followed for getting the V300 working under 10.04. I'm not sure this order is absolutely required (except where noted) but it worked for me.
- Get rid of everything you might have installed
sudo apt-get remove xsane sane-utils sane iscan iscan-data
Your list of failed attempts may differ and you may have to remove some of the above items from the list. You can also remove them individually
sudo apt-get install sane
http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do
- Go here
and fill in the questionnaire. It will tell you what to download. Note that there are THREE packages that must be downloaded. My mistake was in only seeing the first one. For 10.04 32-bit these were:
iscan-data_1.6.0-0_all.deb
iscan_2.26.1-3.ltdl7_i386.deb
esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_i386.deb
Download all of these and install them. These three items must be installed in this order or you will have dependency issues.
You can install them with gdebi (which will come up if you click on them in Nautilus in the folder you downloaded them to.)
4.
sudo apt-get install sane-utils
- Now if you plug in your scanner (if it was already plugged in, please power it off and on now or this won't work)
and type this in a terminal window
$ scanimage -L
you should see the output
device `epkowa:interpreter:002:008' is a Epson Perfection V300 flatbed scanner
(SCSI bus numbers will vary), and you will hear the lovely sound of the scanner coming to life.
You should now have Image Scan! for Linux on your Applications -> Graphics menu. You can run this, and it works, but I don't like it. I couldn't find a way to do multipage PDF scans with it, which is what I need it to be able to do.
To get that and other advanced capabilities:
sudo apt-get install xsane
xsane is the gold standard for Linux scanning, does everything you want it to.
If you do these steps you can ignore all the old information about permissions, creating a "scanner" group for users, messing around with "epkowa" and other poorly documented stuff that floats to the top of the Google search.
SteveC:
Many thanks for your thoughtful and detailed instruction. I'm a casual Ubuntu lusr, with zero (0) admin skills. I followed your instructions closely ... obvious variations show on the avsys site, like choosing x64bit file versions. After the 3-file plus sane-utils installation my Epson V300 punched up exactly as it should. Then, XSANE works also.
Many thanks again .... you saved my bacon.