Epson Scanner...

[Photojoe4]

Just wondering, has anyone been successful in getting an Epson scanner (in my case a V500) to work with their Pi? From what I was reading, the drivers from Epson don't work with ARM processors, correct? Is there any workaround for this, or is this just not feasible?

[DougieLawson]

Take a look whether it is supported by SANE. My 2005 Canon scanner that wouldn't work with wonders got a new lease of life with SANE.

[fruitoftheloom]

Just wondering, has anyone been successful in getting an Epson scanner (in my case a V500) to work with their Pi? From what I was reading, the drivers from Epson don't work with ARM processors, correct? Is there any workaround for this, or is this just not feasible?

Epsom Perfection V500 Photo unsupported by SANE:

http://www.sane-project.org

[Photojoe4]

Thanks guys, looks like I may need to look at another scanner unless I come up with another option besides SANE.

[PiGraham]

Just wondering, has anyone been successful in getting an Epson scanner (in my case a V500) to work with their Pi? From what I was reading, the drivers from Epson don't work with ARM processors, correct? Is there any workaround for this, or is this just not feasible?

Epsom Perfection V500 Photo unsupported by SANE:

http://www.sane-project.org

What it actually says is:

Perfection V500 Photo
USB
0x04b8/0x0130
Unsupported
supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter

So what is the epkowa backend?
https://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sec ... ane-epkowa
Maybe that's worth trying.

[fruitoftheloom]

Just wondering, has anyone been successful in getting an Epson scanner (in my case a V500) to work with their Pi? From what I was reading, the drivers from Epson don't work with ARM processors, correct? Is there any workaround for this, or is this just not feasible?

Epsom Perfection V500 Photo unsupported by SANE:

http://www.sane-project.org

What it actually says is:

Perfection V500 Photo
USB
0x04b8/0x0130
Unsupported
supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter

So what is the epkowa backend?
https://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sec ... ane-epkowa
Maybe that's worth trying.

As far as I am aware the backend was compiled for x86 CPU.......

[PiGraham]

Maybe the source code is available. Maybe it can be built for Arm. Maybe it's not worth the effort.

[scruss]

You might be able to get it to work with SANE's epson2 driver.

Iscan, unfortunately, includes some closed-source x86 binaries even in their source package — http://support.epson.net/linux/src/scanner/iscan/ — so the epkowa driver is not going to build on Raspberry Pi

[cspan]

So is there any off-the-shelf scanner for sale right now that works with the Raspberry Pi? Pref a dedicated flatbed scanner, but I'd consider all-in-one machine too.

I saw the Canon LiDE 120 is listed on the SANE page as completely supported, but a review on Canon's site claims it is not compatible with Linux, "All the previous models in the LIDE series are supported in SANE but Canon inexplicably replaced the previous working LIDE 110 with this identical looking model and changed the chipset, making it useless."

Both can't be true, can they?

Are there other scanning solutions that can be accomplished with the Pi? With my Win7 desktop, I use my Epson Perfection 3490 almost daily for either a PDF or jpg scan, and that's the functionality I'd like to also have on the RPi.

[scruss]

I just built the SANE epson2 driver on my Raspberry Pi Zero using these instructions: http://www.johndstech.com/2016/linux/ra ... pberry-pi/ - and it works!

The LiDE 120 is supposed to work, and I'd believe what the SANE developers say over Canon.

The 3490 should work with the Snapscan driver. The Linux functionality won't be the same as under Windows: the Scan to PDF/E-mail/Word buttons rely on closed-source Windows code.

[cspan]

How does gscan2pdf work? Is it just another software package that tries to give some degree of functionality to a scanner, or does it convert image files (say, from your digital camera) to PDFs? Just wondered if that was a potential ersatz solution, not even requiring a scanner.

That said, if I ever went to the Pi alone, I'd want to find a scanner that worked with full functionality in Linux. I only care about scanning to image files and PDFs, not to MS Word, which I don't use. Ideally multi-page capable on the PDF side of things. Again, I welcome ideas! Thanks

[scruss]

gscan2pdf joins images from your scanner into multi-page PDFs. It works especially well if you have an ADF. I don't remember if it reads individual images from files, as I haven't used it in years.

If you have an Android phone, Google Drive app scans to multi-page PDF via the camera.