Setting permis‐ sions with "chmod" is not permanent... they will be reset after
reboot or replugging the scanner.
so then it would be to add
chmod 770 /dev/bus/usb/*
to /etc/rc.local .
Or perhaps the kernel is claiming the scanner?
Libusb can only access your scanner if it's not claimed by the kernel
scanner driver. If you want to use libusb, unload the kernel driver
(e.g. rmmod scanner under Linux) or disable the driver when compiling a
new kernel.