An easier mechanism might be to comment out all the backends you are not using in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
allan On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:54 AM Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote: > Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> writes: > > If you don't specify the scanner to scanimage with the -d option, then > > it will poll around all the backends to obtain a list of the available > > scanners first. This typically can take quite a good few seconds. > > This is the explanation, thanks! Glad I asked. Now this is fun: > > scanimage -o out.png -d "epjitsu:libusb:003:007" --resolution 200dpi > > :D > > > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"