On Fri, May 05 2017, allan gottlieb wrote: > I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. > Printing is fine. > > I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... > > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > scanning. > > I can select multipage and can the scan each page singly and hit > "save multipage file". This works. But I can't put say 10 pages in the > feeder, hit something, get coffee, and find a 10 page document on my > computer. > > In case it is relevant, I run gentoo stable / gnome-3 / systemd. > > thanks in advance, > allan
I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. thanks, allan