I use low price commercial options for scanning on Linux.
I use a Epson V700 for photo scanning, and for that sort of use I highly recommend vuescan. It's likely overkill for document scanning, but also easy, with extensive hardware support, and is not much money if you value your time.
I think Epson's scanning software runs under Wine, but I haven't tried it.
I don't really use a flatbed scanner much for document scanning any more, because it's gotten so easy to use a phone instead. For that I use CamScanner. There's a free version, but I paid the few bucks to the developer which gets you OCR. Gets rid of ads too if you don't already block them.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Roylance via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au>
To: luv-main@luv.asn.au
Sent: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 6:25 pm
Subject: Re: Epson V350 scanner contrariness.
hi
I had a similar problem with a usb2 HP scanner pluged into a usb3 port,
lsusb command
showed the scanner but the scanner did not work, I pluged it into a usb2
port and it works
I am running Fedora 23.
Steve
On 09/06/16 18:19, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
> My Epson V350 scanner worked fine with ubuntu 10.04 and iscan, but it's
> hiding from the latest iscan on debian 7, giving "Could not send command
> to scanner. Check the scanner's status."
>
> It has power, and the steady green status LED indicates "Ready to scan".
>
> The iscan version is from the latest iscan-bundle-1.0.0.x86.deb
> downloaded from http://support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan_c.html today.
>
> The USB connection & scanner interface are OK:
> $ lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:012f Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection V350 (GT-F700)
>
> Trying to probe a bit more:
> # sane-find-scanner
> ...
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012f [EPSON
> Scanner]) at libusb:001:002
> ...
> Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> ...
>
> The latter doesn't work, because the V350 isn't supported by Xsane, but
> that wasn't an issue for iscan, AFAIR. (It is, after all, specifically
> for Epson scanners.)
>
> $ groups
> erik cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner bluetooth netdev
> +++++++
>
> It would be damned convenient if I could manage to scan a few documents
> in the next few days, so any ideas on this or alternative apps would hit
> a dry spot.
>
> The debian gui "Simple Scan" clicky-thing says "No scanners detected".
> Multiple google hits suggest it is also a Sane front-end.
>
> Erik
> (Back to the intertubes, for more inspiration. There has to be
> something out there.)
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