xsane [ Abandond }

[Gordon]

Hi Folks

in dire need of your assistance. I have been trying for days now to get xsane to run correctly with no success. I have been doing a lot of reading but not been able to figure it out.
I have installed " Argyll icc profiles, Gnome color manager " and purged and reinstalled xsane and sane several times and also looked for other scanner drivers all to no avail.
I have also updated VSIDO.
Sorry forgot to add the error messages.
Error during cms conversion
Error could not open scanner icm profile
Error could not create transform.
I think there was one other to do with icc but can't remember
any help please 

[PackRat]

I hate Xsane, it has never worked right for me.

What type of scanner?

See if your scanner is recognized:

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scanimage -L

If it doesn't work the first time, run that command with "sudo". You may have to detach and re-attach the scanner.

If your scanner is recognized, try scanning from the command line:

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scanimage --format=png --output-file test.png --progress

In all honesty, I gave up on Xsane/sane. Does your scanner support inserting removable media like a thumbdrive or sd card? I always just scan to the media and go from there.

Sane at ArchWiki

ArchWiki - sanner specific issues

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat.

Straight into a problem.
Ran scanimage as root and
" bash: scanimage: command not found "
I have a printer scanner, Brother MFC-J6520DW.
Any other scanner drivers that you know about that might work ?

[PackRat]

scanimage should be part of the sane package. If the command isn't there, then sane isn't installed or it's not on your $PATH.

No you will need the proper drivers (64 or 32 bit) for your scanner. If you want 32-bit drivers on a 64-bit system, you'll need to install the 32-bit compatibility packages. The Brother site where you can get drivers for Linux walks you through the various install processes.

This your scanner? - you will want all the deb packages and that install tool.

[Gordon]

Well.
Reinstalled all the drivers as per website all to no avail, still getting cms errors.
There must be something else missing so all that I can think of doing is a complete reinstall of VSIDO and see if that cures it

[PackRat]

Do you have another computer to test the scanner?

[Gordon]

Unfortunately no but never mind i have given up on sane / xsane and found another scanning software Skanlite  which does all that i want it to do anyway.
Once again PackRat thanks for all your time and help, very much appreciated 

[PackRat]

No problem.

Is skanlite in the repos?

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat

Yep downloaded and installed using apt-get