Saturday, 30 December 2017

linux - Weird noise while scanning, using scanimage and a Canon Lide 35


I'm trying to scan a bunch of images, using xsane's scanimage :


scanimage --format=tiff --batch --batch-prompt

This command scans the first picture perfectly, but as soon as I press enter, the scanner makes a weird noise, and the scanning "arm" moves very, very slowly.


If I stop scanimage and start again, it scans normally again.


Is there another scanimage option that I need to add? I've checked the man page, but can't see what I'm missing.


Edit: the problem seems to be that the scanning "arm" doesn't go back to it's original position after the first scan.



Answer



I've found this link, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525963, where the guy has the same problem :



leads to the optical array moving very slowly and the motor making lots of noise while doing so (after scanning the first page). Interrupting the scan (CTRL-C) doesn't help, one has to unplug the scanner.



It seems to be a libsane bug, fixed in the next version.


Ok thanks.


I've got to stop answering my own questions. :)


EDIT : Got it to work by downloading the following packages from the next version of Ubuntu :



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