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Questions tagged [simplescan]

Questions related to Simple Scan, an application designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.

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Scanner Not detected by Simple Scan

I have Canon Pixma G3012 All-in-One Wireless Ink Tank Colour Printer I am trying to scan a document from my Linux Ubuntu 18 installed PC using simple scan software. Connected the device into PC over USB and powered on. Opened simple scan software…
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How to get a Brother DCP-350C scanner working?

Downloaded and installed the linux drivers from the Brother site here. But the scanner still wasn't recognised. You can see here, the drivers installed successfully: $ dpkg -l | grep Brother ii brother-cups-wrapper-common …
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Simple Scan cannot find scanner

Output of lsusb and sane-find-scanner below: janos@AndrasXubuntu:~/Desktop$ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is…
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How to set default file type PNG for Simple Scan?

With Xubuntu 15.10, Simple Scan 3.18.1, the default file type is, even for images, PDF. I would like to set it to PNG, is that possible? There is a related, older question for changing from JPG to PDF with the solution, to switch the scanning from…
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Scanner not detected in simple-scan in Ubuntu 24.04

I recently re-installed my OS, upgrading from 22.04 to 24.04. After re-installing simple-scan, my Fujitsu (Ricoh) fi-800r, connected directly by USB, is no longer detected by simple-scan, my preferred scanning software. This configuration worked OK…
David Elner
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Configure simple-scan to produce PDF with better quality

I am scanning documents with simple-scan and I'm finding that, if I save documents as PDF, the quality is very low, and if I afterwards save teh document as PNG, the quality is very high. I have tried to enable "Photo" as opposed to "Text", and…
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Multiple applications crash on 17.10 with "Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xff 0xff" with samsung scannner

I have a Samsung scanner which hasn't been working since I installed 17.10. # sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3430 [SCX-5635 Series]) at libusb:001:002 Each time I try to use simple-scan…
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Canon MG2550 PIXMA "Simple Scan : no scanners available, Ubuntu 14"

It's very simple! Nothing has worked until now1.... And Canon's website (Europe) doesn't seem to have the right Debian drivers for x64... Canon MG2550 Linux Drivers I just want a DEB file so I can click it and Ubuntu will take it from there doing…
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Unable to connect to scanner (simple-scan & Brother DCP-L2530DW)

I'm using simple-scan with a Brother DCP-L2530DW printer/scanner. The printer works fine, but I'm having issues using the scanner. I've installed the drivers: jam@jam-ncase:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep Brother [sudo] password for jamie: ii brscan-skey …
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Cannot persuade ubuntu 18.04 to detect and run Canon G2000 series scanner

I have a Canon Pixma G2100 multifunctional that prints very well but I cannot use the scanner. My Linux is a Xubuntu 18.04 updated. I followed this link to install the scanner (option B - from source): https://blog.droidzone.in/tag/sane/ Both…
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Change settings for simple scan

we use 3 PC and 3 HP 6970 allinone connected via powerline. To choose one HP 6970 as standard printer for a PC is easy and works well. But simple scan don't use this standard device for scanning. Is there a possibility to set one HP device as…
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How to setup kyocera ecosys m2040dn scanner

i have kyocera ecosys m2040dn MFD, installed the printer driver downloaded from the official website. but only printer working, unable to use the scanner, how to install the scanner driver?
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Can't install simple-scan: you have held broken packages

On ubuntu 18.04, when I run sudo apt install simple-scan I get: The following packages have unmet dependencies. simple-scan : Depends: libsane1 (>= 1.0.24) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken…
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How to scan text documents from the command line?

I like the way simple-scan produces small pdf files for text documents. Alas, since I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 (and still on 18.04), the keys C-1 (scan 1 page) and C-n no longer work, so I have to move the mouse (which is slow), so I am looking for…
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How to detect HP Scanjet G2410 Scanner if it is not being detected automatically?

I have a scanner HP Scanjet G2410 (Flatbed Style) and I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the hope that my PC will automatically detect it but 'Simple Scan' application showed a message as 'No scanners detected'. So I went to Software…
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