On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 18:30:31 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 06, 2020 02:55:56 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:46:07PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:35:32PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > You might have been searching for the wrong thing; > > > > > > > > libsane-genesys* is provided by package libsane, which is > > > > available in everything from jessie to sid. > > > > > > Yes, it's a lib: > > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search genesys > > > libsane: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-genesys.so.1 > > > libsane: > > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-genesys.so.1.0.27 [...] > > > > Indeed it is. It is a backend to SANE. The Project says that support > > for the CanoScan 700F is "Good". The OP seems to have a good chance > > of getting it scanning. > > > > Meanwhile, he has probably devoted some time to reading the wiki. > > Well, I am digging into the documentation, I might get to the wiki, > or I might keep pursuing Windows ... > > The list of SANE: Supported Devices > at: > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON > > Says there is good support for the CanoScan 700F but does not list > support at all for the CanoScan LiDE 700F (but does have separate > listing for several other models differentiated by LiDE, e.g. > CanoScan 600 vs. CanoScan LiDE 600 (I'm guessing about 10 different > models like this). > > I vaguely remember / suspect this is what I ran into last time I > tried this. I will do a little more reading, I don't know what the > LiDE indicates...
Nothing bad in itself. I have a LiDE 20 which is literally twenty years old, which works fine on simple-scan. I inherited it from my wife, when it turned out that Win7/64 didn't have a driver for it, though win7/32 had. -- Joe