thank you for the advice Brian. SANE is not finding my scanner now. It worked fine before I scanned something with windows (previously mentioned). My web search revealed that in troubleshooting this I need to enter two commands, sudo sane-find-scanner & sudo scanimage -L: sudo sane-find-scanner [sudo] password for bmike1: # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. and sudo scanimage -L device `hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C7200_series?serial=MY7A2G42SW04YG' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_C7200_series all-in-one While 'xsane -L' recognizes the device SANE seems not too. I would follow further advice from the support thread where I got these commands but my computer sees it but won't use it plus my scanner was working! On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > I've always like xsane, btw SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is the drivers > that pretty much everything in Linux uses for it's backend, most frontend > programs just show less options in order to make scanning easy and can hide > increasing the resolution of the image. > > XSANE exposes the maximum amount of options, but that also makes it more > difficult to use. It does have some really nice options that aren't found > in many other programs like being able to set zones on your scanner so that > you can scan multiple images or pages at once and xsane will automatically > chop them up into seperate images for you. That makes bulk scanning much > faster. > > One other thing you might want to try if you are bulk scanning books is to > just use a digital camera. A digital camera can take pictures of the pages > as fast as you can turn the page and most cameras these days have enough > DPI that that you will have no problem reading them later. > > To increase the quality of the photo, find a piece of glass. I ended up > temporarily robbing one from a picture frame. Then use the glass to press > the pages flat for the camera. You'll also want a light or 2 to get good > results. Make sure that you light the book from the sides and not try to > get it straight on or you'll get a ton of glare. > > Once you are done, there are some utilities that can increase the quality > of your scanned or photographed images. Unpaper is one that comes to > mind. It can help make the image look even more flat, especially towards > the spine of the book. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 12/22/2015 11:10 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I've been using gscan2pdf for a long time. I have been considering the >> poor resolution as the breaks of the game. I recently resolved to try to >> fix it because I was scanning my computer manuals in. I fiddled with >> some stuff but no improvement. I then thought it might be gscan2pdf so I >> started another scanner. I picked SANE and while the scan was much >> slower the resolution was not much better (I 'm sure the program isn't >> called SANE but whenever I try to open a scanner program now I am told >> "Sorry. No devices found." The second program I used is found by >> clicking "Acquireimages"). So I thought it was a scanner issue or a >> computer issue; so I shut Linux down and started Windows. Well, with the >> Windows7 included scanner program the scan was slower than with >> gscan2pdf (default settings) but not slower than with SANE and the image >> was clear. In fact I was able to zoom in 200% and while it was not >> crystal clear it was very much legible while a Linux zoom of 100% >> produced a practically illegible document. >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: