CentOS 6 – Support For CanoScan LiDE 210

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Hi folks,

for some time I used a HP 2840 AiO device, connected via LAN, to scan documents. As scanning application I use xsane. I want to replace that HP scanner by a CanoScan LiDE 210.

# LANG=”” yum info libsane-hpaio
… Installed Packages Name : libsane-hpaio Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.14.6
Release : 3.el6
Size : 148 k Repo : installed From repo : base Summary : SANE driver for scanners in HP’s multi-function devices URL : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
License : GPLv2+
Description : SANE driver for scanners in HP’s multi-function devices
(from HPOJ).

Now I connected CanoScan LiDE 210 Scanner via USB cable to my CentOS 6
workstation.

# dmesg | tail –lines
… usb 3-1: new high speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendora9, idProduct0a usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 3-1: Product: CanoScan usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Canon usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
…

After opening xsane it seems to be connected to the HP Scanner. I can not find any options for choosing another scanner device. From http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html I can see that CanoScan LiDE
210 is supported by genesys 1.0-63. From my understanding on CentOS the genesys backend is included in sane-backends:

# LANG=”” yum info sane-backends
… Installed Packages Name : sane-backends Arch : x86_64
Version : 1.0.21
Release : 3.el6
Size : 4.4 M
Repo : installed From repo : anaconda-CentOS-201410241409.x86_64
Summary : Scanner access software URL : http://www.sane-project.org License : GPLv2+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions and Public Domain Description : Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is a universal scanner interface. The
: SANE application programming interface (API) provides standardized
: access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner,
: hand-held scanner, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).

The sane-backends is installed, but I can not “see” the scanner:

# scanimage -L
device `hpaio:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_2840?zc=NPI9AC264′ is a Hewlett-Packard HP_Color_LaserJet_2840 all-in-one

I have no idea what I can do now. It is not clear to me if sane-backends package really includes the required genesys 1.0-63 version.

Any help to make the new scanner work is appreciated.

Regards,

Meikel

8 thoughts on - CentOS 6 – Support For CanoScan LiDE 210

  • Am 26.09.2015 um 13:11 schrieb Leon Fauster:

    As far as I can see, it is enabled there:

    # grep genesys /etc/sane.d/dll.conf genesys

  • You need sane-backends 1.0.22 or later to have genesys 1.0-63.

    There are a few ways to install a newer version of sane-backends on EL6. One is to rebuild a src.rpm from Fedora. The other is to use the linuxtech-backports repo [1]. I have even built it from a tarball but this should not be necessary.

    If you need more assistance, let us know.

    Akemi

    [1] http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/backports/

  • To the original poster:

    I followed Frank’s procedure on my C6 system, a year or two ago, and it works fine for my LiDE 210.

  • My Cannon printer / scanner needed an application from Cannon called scangear in order to work – Cannon doesn’t play well with Linux, they have proprietary ways of doing things. Then the scangear results need to be massaged extensively so you can attach it to an email as the typical scan is huge / photo quality and no options to produce something like my Ricoh copier does with a scan to pdf / email. I will not buy Cannon products again.

  • Yeah. if they don’t care about us, why should we care about them?

    Only reason I bought the Canon LiDE 210 was because it had “full”
    support from SANE.

  • Am 26.09.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Akemi Yagi:

    As I have only very basic skills with yum command I had problems with the same packages (i.e. sane-backends, sane-backends-libs, sane-backends-libs-gphoto) available in two repos. Then I ended in using yum to remove everything concerning xsane/sane (including hp sane packages), then downloading from linuxtech and running “rpm -U …” and then with yum I again installed xsane.

    Now I’m able to see the CanoScan LiDE 210 in xsane and it seems to work, at least I’m able to scan single page into a PDF file.

    And the command line says

    # LANG=”” yum info sane-backends
    … Installed Packages Name : sane-backends Arch : x86_64
    Version : 1.0.22
    Release : 3.1.el6
    Size : 4.5 M
    Repo : installed
    …

    # scanimage -L
    device `genesys:libusb:003:005′ is a Canon LiDE 210 flatbed scanner