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Trying to get a Epson V600 Film/Print scanner to work with any version of Ubuntu or Linux. Using Xsane, the software does not recognize the V600 scanner. But it does recognize my combo printer scanners. I have tried to get Xsane to recognize this scanner with two completely different Linux operating systems. It hasn't worked so far.

(Note: This is a 120mm or smaller film/slide/print scanner capable of 12,800 dpi with scan error correction built into the hardware. (ICE))

I am presuming that I need some sort of support file, but I don't know what it is.

I have read where Ubuntu supported previous and lighter versions of this scanner. But I have not had this luck with the V600.

Anyone know what I need to make this scanner work with a Linux system?

lloyd
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there's a current bug in 18.04 && 18.10

  • i installed the latest version of libsane from Rold Bensch's ppa as @pdc mentioned above (dunno if necessary)
  • i ran install.sh from the epson linux .deb (particular bundle for my v550)
  • bug tracker gave me info to give a symbolic link to the proprietary epson libraries (called epkowa)

run:

sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane

source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1728012

austin
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