How can i use my Pixma 6150 as scanner?

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I bought a Canon PIXMA MG6150 and i am new at ubuntu. With the drivers from Canon i got it running a as a printer, but i have problems using it as scanner. With the Canon drivers it runs under GIMP with Scangear MP. But i want to use XSANE or gscan2pdf and in these programs it doesn't work. They tell me that no devices are available. Can anyone help me?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '12 at 07:03

Canon has chosen not to provide official support for Ubuntu, and this limits what you can do. You can't use it with gscan2pdf, for example.

To make a PDF of a scanned document:

Scan it in GIMP
Save the .jpg image
Drag the .jpg image into a new document in Libre Office
Export the document as a PDF

Experiment with both the image scan quality, as well as the PDF export quality, to get a reasonably small PDF. I usually scan at 300dpi, then adjust the PDF export quality to get the best results.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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If you have installed the drivers from Canon, the ScanGear application is there too.

Run scangearmp. That command can be added into a .desktop file, like so.

Or run from Gimp: File-Create-SangearMP.

ScanGear can save as pdf

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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How can i use my Pixma 6150 as scanner?

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