I found the problem. It seems to be a permissions error!
man sane-usb
This is a short HOWTO-like section. For the full details, read the fol‐
lowing sections. The goal of this section is to get the
scanner
detected by sane-find-scanner(1).
Run sane-find-scanner. If it lists your scanner with the correct
vendor
and product ids, you are done. See section SANE ISSUES for details
on
how to go on.
sane-find-scanner doesn't list your scanner? Does it work as root?
If
yes, there is a permission issue. See the LIBUSB section for details.
Nothing is found even as root? Check that your kernel supports USB
and
that libusb is installed (see section LIBUSB).
<edit>
LIBUSB
SANE can only use libusb 0.1.6 or newer. It needs to be installed
at
build-time. Modern Linux distributions and other operating systems
come
with libusb.
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. For Linux, your kernel needs support for the USB
filesystem
(usbfs). For kernels older than 2.4.19, replace "usbfs" with
"usbdevfs"
because the name has changed. This filesystem must be mounted.
That's
done automatically at boot time, if /etc/fstab contains a line
like
this:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
The permissions for the device files used by libusb must be
adjusted
for user access. Otherwise only root can use SANE devices. For
Linux,
the devices are located in /proc/bus/usb/ or in /dev/bus/usb, if
you
use udev. There are directories named e.g. "001" (the bus name)
con‐
taining files "001", "002" etc. (the device files). The right
device
files can be found out by running scanimage -L as root. Setting
permis‐
sions with "chmod" is not permanent, however. They will be reset
after
reboot or replugging the scanner.
Okay, do I need to make it look like:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 6 6
or what do I need to do?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I then tried:
>
> scanimage>test.scn
> scanimage: no SANE devices found
>
>
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