I think most HP and Brother brand devices have pretty good support built into the kernel. But possibly you could look up your device and see if they package a proprietary driver for linux. I think you may have to add the "printer" while declaring a particular driver. Cups has a CLI command to do this if it's not clear on how to with the GUI. The arch linux wiki page for cups has a lot of assistance for troubleshooting with printers/scanners.
Also I wrote a pretty cool bash script as a CLI scanning wizard that supports OCR and declaring a particular DPI for the generated images. https://github.com/tzcrawford/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/in_terminal/scan-wizard.sh You would have to install tesseract OCR and the english dictionary to get it to work. Dec 9, 2024 13:50:04 Michael via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]>: > Here's the definitive Linux scanner checklist. Look at the "Supported > devices" link. > http://sane-project.org/ > > I use HP OfficeJet and HP Envy all-in-ones, and the scanners work fine once > the printer is installed. Not a recommendation, but I don't want to have a > printer and a separate scanner for space and clutter reasons. I hate HP and > their printers however, and will switch to another brand next time. > > I use the simple-scan software (Gnome Document Scanner). > > Cheers, > Michael > >> Message: 13 >> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:31:25 +0000 >> From: AZ Pete <[email protected]> >> Subject: Linux Friendly Scanner >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm in the process of finally being able to leave Windows for good and move >> entirely to Linux. One of the remaining "sticking" points is that my single >> feed page scanner is not recognized in Linux at all. It's an old Plustek >> MobileOffice S400 single page scanner (color). >> >> I don't need a fancy multi-page, flat-bed printer/scanner - just a single >> feed USB scanner for the occasional papers I need to scan into a PDF or JPG >> document. >> >> Does anyone have any recommendations for a similar, single-page scanner that >> works well on Linux (i.e. Ubuntu/Mint/Debian)? >> >> Thanks! >> Peter >
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