I'm in need of a recipe for interfacing with my [favourite] scanner, an Epson Perfection V350 Photo.
I was previously using xsane and iscan on my ubuntu 18.04 machine with no trouble. On a new laptop on which I installed Ubu 24.04, neither xsane nor iscan find the [USB-connected] V350.
iscan installed successfully (after following the help in Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic -> Epson iscan > Unable to locate package libsane) but when I start it, it pops up a message box: Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status. which makes me think there is some permission problem with the usb port.
lsusb finds the device: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:012f Seiko Epson Corp. GT-F700 [Perfection V350]
sane-find-scanner finds: found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012f [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:002
scanimage -L only finds my one networked scanner, irrelevant to this issue
Over the last few days, I've downloaded and installed various packages:
https://download2.ebz.epson.net/iscan/general/deb/x64/iscan-bundle-2.30.4.x64.deb.tar.gz
After downloading and installing libsane (libsane_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb) the previous iscan download installed, but doesn't find the USB-connected V350.
I went crazy and downloaded a couple of windows versions of TWAIN scan interfaces from Epson and installed them in wine bottles. Neither find the V350 (neither display any UI or error messages; they seem to quietly die.) I changed the permissions of the /dev/usb/001/002 from 664 (rw-rw-r- for root:root:other) but no one seems to talk to my V350.
Has anyone successfully installed xsane or iscan for a USB-connected scanner? Bonus points for an Epson Perfection device!
