From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.csir.co.za (mx-4.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DB3C1A0B4 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:15:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p8N8F8KV026553 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:15:08 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p8N8EvrR030776 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:14:57 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id p8N8EuN9030752 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:14:57 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:14:56 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Socrates-and-An Easier OCR? In-Reply-To: <20110923005434.GB3967@linlap.wavecable.com> Message-ID: References: <20110916111221.GA802@linlap.wavecable.com> <20110923005434.GB3967@linlap.wavecable.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:15:08 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: p8N8F8KV026553 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1317370508.75422@jnym+5u3eZOcIFkW3zUtyA X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:15:14 -0000 Hi, I had to change some things in /etc/sane*/somefile.conf, not epson, my epson uses another thing. I also had to extract some firmware from the windows driver, but it was all documented in the sane manuals. I did this so long ago that I am not exactly sure of what I had to do, but maybe it helps. Try googling for your model scanner and sane. HTH, Willem On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Steve Holmes wrote: > OK, I ran the two commands again as root and 'sane-find-scanner' > yielded some interesting info but scanimage did not. See the > typescript I included below. > > Script started on Thu 22 Sep 2011 05:48:19 PM PDT > root@linlap ~# scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > root@linlap ~# 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 powered up and properly connected to your computer. > > # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that > # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x013a [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:002 > # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > # Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports > # can't be detected by this program. > root@linlap ~# exit > exit > > Script done on Thu 22 Sep 2011 05:51:02 PM PDT > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.