I have a Brother MFC-240C Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax/PCFAX/Photo Centre.
To the best of my knowledge there is no default scanner software for Ubuntu.
Simple Scan was installed with the system. I didn't like it so, I
installed
Xsane Image Scanning Program, which was not much better, so I found
and installed
gscan2pdf which is great.
I just checked, whereis found both sane and xsane.
Yes, I can use gscan2pdf to scan documents. If memory serves I can even
copy and paste from it to LO. I just wanted to avoid running a 2nd
program as LO is supposed to do this.
BTW. A good reason for having gscan2pdf 0.9.x is that it has 3 OCR
engines in it. Tesseract-ocr 2.x.x is the best, it recognizes several
languages, though you have to download the language files. Once I have
gscan2pdf 1.0.0 set up so that I can install it, it will recognize even
more languages and scripts. As gscan2pdf 1.0.0 seems to include the
Tesseract-ocr 3.x.x engine and the language files.
On 11-11-23 04:25 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
>
> LO 32-bit or 64-bit DEB? 3.4.3? 3.4.4? or some other version?
>
> What is the Printer/Scanner model you are using? What is the the
> default scanner software you are using for Ubuntu? Do you have XSane
> installed or just Sane?
>
> I know that my Artisan Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax [network, wireless,
> and USB]does not have a working driver for the scanner so I can use it
> with Ubuntu [10.04 LTS], so I use my HP PSC-1410 [print-scan-copy -
> USB] as my Ubuntu Scanner. I have it buried and will have to un-bury
> it to do a proper test for the scanning into LO. But that will have
> to be later, since I have to leave for a meeting after I sent this email.
>
> Any reason you do not scan in the image through XSane or other
> package, save it to a file, then import the file? Or at least for now
> till we find out what is needed to get that option working correctly.
>
> On 11/23/2011 04:13 PM, Udvarias Ur wrote:
>> I tried 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' in LibreOffice on
>> Ubuntu. Nothing happened.
>>
>> I rebooted into Windows.
>> The same menu item resulted in
>> 1. the scanner being immediately activated,
>> 2. the document in the scanner being scanned, and
>> 3. the result being pasted into the open document in LibreOffice.
>> (Full 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size).)
>>
>> I rebooted to Ubuntu.
>> There I found that if I:
>> first go to 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
>> I get a dialogue box in which I can select a scanner, and
>> set the dimensionsof the document to scan.
>> Whether I the set dimensionsor not I can click the 'Create Preview'
>> button,when I do.
>> I get a error box telling me I can not create a preview though I
>> can scan.
>> Clicking 'OK' in the error box activates the scanner and scans the
>> document.
>> However, when I click the 'OK'buttonin the 'Scanner' selection dialogue
>> boxeverything disappears.
>>
>> I learned, by accident, that I can:
>> 1. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
>> 2. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...'
>> Which will now scan the document and past it into the open document in
>> LibreOffice.
>>
>> The issue however, is that the default paper size is 212 mm X 276 mm.
>> This is neither A4 nor US letter size.
>>
>> The issue worsenswhen I set the paper size to 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter
>> size) and the size is automatically reset to 212 mm X 276 mm thereby
>> cutting off all the edges when the document is scanned.
>>
>> Worst still the next time I start LibreOffice writer the paper size is
>> reset to 212 mm X 276 mm.
>>
>> How can this be corrected?
>>
>
>
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Udvarias Ur
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