Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I tried a freshly-formatted 16GB stick, and the document scanned > successfully. The PDF is just shy of 40MB for 360 pages. The Most likely the document is first scanned to a set of separate uncompressed pages (maybe kept in separate files) and only converted to a PDF at the end, hence the

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sat Apr 3 16:42:15 2021 John Boxall wrote: > On 2021-04-03 1:00 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >> the error message.  I forget the exact wording, but it >> was pretty specific about the USB device being full, >> as opposed to some sort of

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Apr 2021 at 10:00:53 -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: [...] > I realize that this has turned into a review of the > scanner, but I've gotten so far into it that I might > as well see it through to the end. For now, connection > to a computer is merely something it would be nice to > have,

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread John Boxall
On 2021-04-03 1:00 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: the error message.  I forget the exact wording, but it was pretty specific about the USB device being full, as opposed to some sort of internal memory overflow. Charlie, It is also a possibility that

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: Emboldened by this, I went into the advanced options and turned on "Continuous scan", then dropped in the first part of a 300-page manual.  Once the sheets were scanned, the scanner asked me whether I had more; I put in the next bundle of sheets,

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 17:05:57 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > The option I favor is that the scan is controlled by your own computer, > but you can trigger new scans by hitting buttons on the scanner > (i.e. the button-presses get sent to your computer who then decides > what action to

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 02 Apr 2021 at 15:27:48 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 02.04.2021 06:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On 2021-04-01 3:51 a.m., Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > > Hello Charlie, > > > > > > It would appear that you are not subscribed to debian-user. Have you > > > seen all the replies

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.04.2021 06:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 2021-04-01 3:51 a.m., Brian Potkin wrote: Hello Charlie, It would appear that you are not subscribed to debian-user. Have you seen all the replies to your post that await you there? Yes, I have.  I just haven't had time to act on them.  I did

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-01 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 2021-04-01 3:51 a.m., Brian Potkin wrote: Hello Charlie, It would appear that you are not subscribed to debian-user. Have you seen all the replies to your post that await you there? Yes, I have. I just haven't had time to act on them. I did download a driver from the Brother site but it

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-01 Thread David Pottage
On 2021-03-31 22:05, Stefan Monnier wrote: Scanning the output to a server just seems plain obvious to me. What's the downside? It has its advantages, indeed. On the downsides: - the scanner usually has a very limited UI, making it difficult/inconvenient (if at all possible) to control and

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:24:36 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I just got a Brother ADS-2700W sheet-fed scanner and am trying > to access it from xsane. I've done a lot of flatbed scanning, > first with an HP 3970, and lately with an Epson WF-2650 all-in-one, > but I have a lot of old manuals I want

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Scanning the output to a server just seems plain obvious to me. > What's the downside? It has its advantages, indeed. On the downsides: - the scanner usually has a very limited UI, making it difficult/inconvenient (if at all possible) to control and select the scanning options, compared

How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 07:18:14 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a > > USB flash drive. It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, > > scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick. > > If all else fails, I

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:24 AM, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 14:23:31 CEST schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > > Hi, > > please check in /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane1.rules if there is an entry

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 14:23:31 CEST schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: Hi, please check in /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane1.rules if there is an entry for your scanner. In my case with a brother scanner I had to manually add it, as the brother packages installation is missing this. Good luck!

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 09:23:31 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 30/03/2021 23:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a > > USB flash drive.  It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, > > scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 30/03/2021 23:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a USB flash drive.  It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick. If all else fails, I can work with it that way.  But I'd really like to

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > I'm beginning to wonder, though, whether fashions are changing. > Scanners nowadays seem to want to push data to a server, rather > than being commanded to scan by a computer. Is this really > happening? If so, whither (or should that be "wither") xsane? In office

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-30 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 31.03.2021 07:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: If anyone has gotten one of these newfangled machines to work as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets. aTdHvAaNnKcSe... Have you tried to install a sane backend driver coming as a .deb package from Brother website?