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Ubuntu 13.04 cannot connect to scanner
Upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04.
Scanner HP CM1312 MFP worked flawlessly, untill upgrade.
After upgrade ´unable to connect to scanner´, both in ´Simple Scan´ and ´Gscan2pdf´.
Could this bug be ...
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Unable to connect to scanner Ubuntu 13.4
´Unable to connect to scanner´, using Simplescan, Ubuntu 13.4
Simplescan, Ubuntu 12.10 with same scanner HP CM 1312MFP worked flawlessly.
What goes wrong here?
Anyone?
Thanks
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Help with scanning Issue
How do I set up the Lexmark S505 printer so it will scan documents? It prints fine, but I can't get it to scan documents into my computer.
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GUI program to resize pdf documents and change their DPI
I see that LibreOffice Draw should be able to open a pdf and export it with options for changing quality and DPI resolution. But the high-resolution scanned pdfs that I have are not properly opened in ...
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How to crop a multi-page (image/scanned) pdf file (which won't crop with pdfcrop)?
Usually, I'm pretty happy using pdfcrop, even though the cropped output usually consumes significantly more disk space. Note that comparable code does exist, which addresses and resolves this issue. ...
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Simple Scan - Changing the default output File Type to PDF and improving Compression?
Is there a way to change the default output file type in the 'Simple Scan' software provided with Ubuntu 12.10 to be a PDF rather than a JPEG? And is it possible to modify the compression settings on ...
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How do I get the scanner to work on a Samsung SCX 4521F Multi function printer?
How do i get ubuntu ti scan documents with a scx 4521F. It is installed as a printer but simple scan says not detected,
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How do I edit text in a scanned .jpeg?
I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document.
After scanning the document, I have a .jpeg with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload.
I have never done this ...
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When I try to scan a document to my email, I get “check connection” message, why? [closed]
My connections are okay. I can fax so I should be able to scan to email.
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Kodak ESP5210 Printer
Ive got a Kodak ESP5210 printer.
I have no problem printing from it but I can't seem to get the
scanner to work, does anyone have any ideas please, drivers or
apps that might work.
Ive connected it to ...
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Simple scan not working after upgrading to 12.10 (Xubuntu)
Since upgrading to 12.10 (Xubuntu), Simple Scan is not working anymore.
I got scanning working with Xsane, but only if Simple Scan has not run before. Otherwise I have to restart the printer/scanner ...
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How to map network scanner
I have just bought a shiny new Canon MG6250 multifunction printer/scanner and connected it via LAN. Installing the printing side of things was a breeze, however, I cannot work out how to set up ...
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How make scanner function of Canon MG5250 work? (MG5200 series)
I just bought a Canon MG5250 multifunction printer because I thought that it would work well with Ubuntu, and the printing function is installed using these instructions.
But I still need to get the ...
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Canon PIXMA MG2120 Printer does not print or scan (using Precise 12.04) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is my Canon printer only printing half-pages?
Why did my Canon or Epson printer stop working after a recent update on 12.04?
I was able to add a MG2100 series ...
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Fujitsu 2040 scanner or similar
Does anyone know if there is a high performance base scanner such as the Fujitsu 2040 scanner that will work correctly with Ubuntu 12.04(64-BIT)?
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Adding OCR info to a PDF
I have a good quality scan of a document; such scan is in pdf format.
How can I add ocr information to the pdf, so that it becomes searchable? By searchable I mean that the goal is that when viewing ...
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Why can I not install the latest version of gscan2pdf?
I installed gscan2pdf 0.9.? something from the Software Center. It has bugs in it that will not allow me to import a pdf with images without gscan only importing the images and ignoring the text.
I ...
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Canon Multifunctional MG3150 - printer OK, but scanning is NOT
Any ideas where the driver can be found or how to activate the scanner driver if it is hidden in the printer driver?
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How do I Scan from my Panasonic DP-C305 [closed]
I really hope someone can help me with this problem as it has been bugging me for a while.
At work I use Ubuntu 11.10, We also use a Panasonic DP-C305 as our main working printer I had finally ...
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Scanning from terminal
I want to be able to scan from the terminal and then send the scanned output to a specific directory. Can this be done from the terminal.
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Lexmark Intuition S505 Scanner not detected by Simple Scan
First post here. I've migrated from Windows to Ubuntu 11.10 - yeah! I've managed to get everything working except my scanner. It's a Lexmark Intuition S505 and not listed at all here ...
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How do I get my Canon MX420 printer working?
I was using Canon MX420 printer properly until I upgrade my ubuntu to 11.10 . After that I can add it to my printers but I can't print or scan any page !
What should I do now ?
sudo apt-get install ...
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Can you remove printer/ scaner support?
Since my laptop doesnt have a printer hooked up, or a scanner hooked up,and never will since it doesnt work with my printer(wrong cables) is there a possibility to remove the process and packages to ...
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HP Photosmart 5510 multifunction printer scanner not found
I can not get my Ubuntu 11.10 system to recognize the scanner in my HP Photosmart 5510 multi-funtion printer. I have loaded the HPLIP extras from my terminal window and loaded the latest HPLIP.
I ...
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How do I make the scanner function of my Brother DCP-315CN work?
I have a networked Brother DCP-315CN printer/scanner that I've been using with Ubuntu since version 7.10. Each new version has required its own tricks but so far, I've always been able to make the ...
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How do I get the Brother DCP-135C scanner to work?
I have a Brother DCP-135C printer/scanner connected to my Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 machine. I have managed to get the printer working, but it doesn't recognise the scanner.
I have installed the drivers ...
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How do I scan for Wireless Access Points?
In Ubuntu 11.04 I used InSSIDer to scan the available APs and sort them by signal strength.
Unfortunately the program seems to be broken in Ubuntu 11.10, and
iwlist wlan0 scan
doesn't return ...
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How to convert TIFF scan file to JPEG or PNG general file format in Ubuntu?
How can i convert this scanned file to general JPEG/PNG?
I used scanimage --mode=color --format=tiff > /tmp/testing.tiff from a scanner
$ convert -seperate testing.tiff testing.jpeg
convert: ...
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How can I get an Epson TX560WD scanner working?
I have a Epson TX560WD, the printer works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.10, but the scanner don't.
I installed XSane and xsane-extras, but the scanner it's not recognized either way. When I open XSane the ...
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Scanning from HP PhotoSmart C4580 - what is SANE?
I have a multifunction HP printer/scanner. I've always used it wirelessly with a PC before now, but want to connect it to my Maverick laptop. I have hplip installed and have connected the machine to ...
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simplescan --fix-pdf fails with a segmentation fault
I'm attempting to use the new --fix-pdf
option of simple scan to fix the errors in pdf files created by earlier versions of simple scan.
The command:
simple-scan --fix-pdf test.pdf
results in a ...
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How to know what other systems are trying to get into Ubuntu?
I am currently using Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 and enabled the firewall using GUFW. I have also disabled all the unnecessary services. I am connected to the internet and would like to know details of any ...
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What should I consider when purchasing a (flatbed) scanner?
I'm considering purchasing a new USB flatbed scanner for my parents whose laptop is running Ubuntu (10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx).
Doing a quick search around I found this thread over in the forums: ...
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Error during device I/O when using USB scanner
I have a Canon LIDE 100 scanner that doesn't properly initialize on first scan attempt. When I trigger a scan, it seems to start (you hear the scanner beginning to engage), but then my scanning ...
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Stitch scanned images using CLI
I have scanned a newspaper article which was larger than the scanner glass. Each page was scanned twice: the top and the bottom parts, where the middle part appeared in both images.
Is there a way to ...
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Running a epson Scanner perfection 3170
How can I make my scanner Epson perfection 3170 running under ubuntu 11.04 ?
When I run "Simple Scan" it said:"No scanner detected".
Thanks
Edit:
after I saw suli8's anwser. I downloaded both ...
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Brother MFC-295CN Scanner
I have managed to add my MFC-295CN printer to my Ubuntu 11.04 desktop. However, I need some help adding the scanner.
from the Brother website I am instructed to install the driver
step 4-3) Command ...
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Auto copy files when added to network share
I have a network share on my system to which our plotter scanner sends its scanned files. How can I write a script to automatically copy newly added files to another folder?
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Extract text from a scanned document
Is there any way to select the text from a scanned document? (output is a jpg) What kind of tools does Ubuntu offer to do such a task? Is there any libraries I can use instead of pre-build software ...
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Canon LIDE 110 - lsusb sane-find-scanner
I'd like to use a Canon LIDE 110 scanner under Ubuntu 10.
Here are the results of lsusb and sane-find-scanner:
$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 1532:001a Razer USA, Ltd
Bus 008 Device 001: ID ...
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How well-supported is the Canon CanoScan LiDE110?
On the list of supported SANE devices the scanner is listed as fully supported but it says:
resolution from 75 to 2400 dpi
Here is a link to Newegg's item listing, where it lists the optical ...
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NETGEAR *Security Alert* [58:84:C7] almost on daily basis, should I do anything?
My Netgear wireless modem and router DG834PN has firewall installed and just recently I have been receiving almost daily 'security Alerts' stating;
TCP Packet - Source:58.218.199.147 ...
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How to debug a pcmcia-scsi adaptor issue with a slide scanner? [closed]
I am looking for ways to debug (or understand why things don't work as I expect with) the initialisation of an SCSI-2 device (Microtek ArtixScan 4000t) using a PCMCIA adaptor (Adaptec SlimSCSI 1450B) ...
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What's the best, simplest OCR solution?
I'd like to scan a good amount of papers I have lying around, with the least possible hassle. I would like to convert them to images using Simple Scan, then convert them to text using OCR. Is there a ...
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How can I fix my Epson Stylus TX101 Multifunction Printer to print, scan, and copy?
I have multifunction printer (Epson Stylus TX101), I can print but can't scan .... any solution for my problem ? (I already try using wine and install scan program from Epson CD - not work, using ...
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How can I get my Epson v500 scanner working?
I have a v500 scanner, but it doesn't show up in simple scan. I've turned it off and on a few times to see if that was the problem. Here is the usb information:
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 04b8:0130 Seiko ...
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How to use network scanner (Samsung Clx 2160n)
I have a Samsung Clx2120N multi-functional (scanner, printer and copier) and this is connected to router (home office), I have two computers and one notebook in the network, but no has a server ...
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Scan many pages straight into a PDF
Is there some easy to use program in Ubuntu that can scan many pages straight into a PDF file?
