Hi Andrea you can find here a recent version of sane here : https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-git $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt install libsane libsane-common sane-utils Thierry Le 8 septembre 2020 17:23:38 GMT+02:00, Alexander Pevzner <[email protected]> a écrit : >Hi Andrea, > >On 9/8/20 5:19 PM, Andrea Croci wrote: >> thank you for your reply. That did work indeed: the scanner gets >> recognised as 'airscan:e0:Canon MF745C/746C'. However the list of >> options for that device is very short. For instance there is no >> "brightness", which would be very helpful when scanning a page printed >> on the backside too. That's what I always have to adjust with the Epson >> scanner in order not to see the back printing through. > >You are the first one to ask :-) > >Yes, sane-airscan doesn't currently support brightness/contrast >parameters. I plan to add this support in a future. > >> In addition I just checked in my laptop, which has Ubuntu 20.04 >> installed instead. That has recognised the scanner automatically with >> the "escl" backend. I don't see an "escl.conf" in my desktop with 18.04. >> Is this just a matter of sane-version? > >Yes, never version of Ubuntu comes with the newer version of SANE, which >includes the sane-escl backend. Even more newer version of Ubuntu will >come with sane-airscan, but I don't know, will these two backends come >together, or sane-airscan will replace sane-escl. > >-- > > Wishes, Alexander Pevzner ([email protected]) > -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
