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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 scanner to work and my attempts so far have not helped:

  1. Thep above instructions don't do anything: SimpleScan still says there's no scanner detected.
  2. I found this post in the Ubuntu Forums but it's too terse; it refers to "patching libsane source" but doesn't explain this. As a beginner, I need more precise instructions.
  3. scanimage -L responds with No scanners were identified.
  4. sane-find-scanner responds with found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1749 [MG5200 series]) at libusb:001:002. Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE.

Question:
Should I try the approach about "patching libsane source" or can you recommend a better/smarter/ simpler solution?

I like SimpleScan very much for its simplicity so if a recommendation is to switch to some other software, it should be something equally one-click simple.

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Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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I just delved into the packages, they do provide a sane module for canon multi-function scanners. And the second package does contain the right files.

Firs thing though, cd dpkg -i is complete rubbish, that's not a valid command and would never work no matter what. I'm editing it out of the other answer so other people aren't confused by it.

I would get you to list the sane backends, but sane is very poorly designed and can't be bothered to include diagnostic functionality. The only thing to try is redownload the scanner package from canon, extract the files and double click on the common i386 package followed by the mg i386 package and install them via the software center.

Use scanimage from the command line to confirm if it's now working scanimage -L and if not, restart the computer and check again.

Martin Owens -doctormo-
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Just use the Canon software : type scangearmp in command line.

Peachy
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Gery
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This question has been annoying me since the beginning.

Finally, with the installation of Ubuntu 13.04 this problem has solved itself because in this version, Ubuntu's built-in SimpleScan recognizes my existing Canon MG5350 scanner, so I can finally have a one-click scanning function.

Solution: upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04.

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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While the scanner worked with simple-scan worked out of the box for Ubuntu 14.04, it's again broken in 16.04. scanimage -L identifies the scanner successfully, simple-scan also lists the scanner, but scanning fails with a connection error.

If you're affected you can try to use the solution described here and use the experimental libsane and libsane-common packages from Debian experimental. Versions 1.0.26 did the trick for me.

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Easier to use ScanGearMP: open the home folder and do a search for "scangearmp'. In the results you will find an executable scangearmp with size 223,9 KB. Right click on this entry and choose Copy to > Desktop. An icon is added on your desktop, just double click on it and the Canon scanner utility starts.

René
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You can find it /usr/bin/scangearmp so go to the /usr/bin/ and copy to the desktop (you must use copy -> desktop function).. This is a bad way to do it.. Why Canon is not made it better. I just bought this mg5350 and I don't know if I must take it back to store

Scanner working with my Ubuntu 12.10 x64 in every app, but not with 12.04 x86

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