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Posted: Mar. 22 2008,13:24 QUOTE
If anyone is interested in Xsane, I have built an extension that works well for my UMAX usb scanner.  When the extensions are loaded it is pretty much point and click to scan. Here they are: (unzip the tarballs for the files)

http://74.237.17.82/dsl/xsane.tar.bz2

http://74.237.17.82/dsl/sane-backends.tar.bz2

Both extensions are needed for Xsane, but sane-backends can function on its own from the command line.  All the available sane drivers are included but of course I could only test one of them.  If it works for others I would like to know.  I didn't compile it against the gimp, I just wanted a standalone scanning utility.  But that could be done.

Juanito - I tried to scan with your hplip extension but could not.  Does your extension support non-hp scanners?  If it does I would just  use your extension instead of this one.  You have obviously put a lot of time into it, and it is very well documented.
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Posted: Mar. 22 2008,13:35 QUOTE
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Juanito - I tried to scan with your hplip extension but could not.  Does your extension support non-hp scanners?  If it does I would just  use your extension instead of this one.  You have obviously put a lot of time into it, and it is very well documented.

- no, it will only work with the scanner function on hp all-in-one machines. I did compile sane-backends/frontends but then removed the files not required by hplip.

I was working on a new version of hplip by splitting out cups, hplip and sane, but I couldn't test either cups or sane in standalone mode so I stopped...
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Posted: Mar. 22 2008,15:17 QUOTE
Juanito:
Reading this thread I thought I'd remind you how you helped me with my scanner.

In Sept 07 you emailed me three files:
sane_hplip.tar.gz,
hplip_xsane_a.tar.gz and
sane_libs.tar.gz for my scanner (Acer Flatbedscanner_9).
with info on creating a plug-in for gimp.

They worked fine.
Edit: can also use command: xscanimage from aterm when not running gimp.
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Posted: Mar. 23 2008,23:26 QUOTE
I have a sane.uci that I can post if that helps.  It's been sitting on my hd awaiting finishing touches.

EDIT: Looks like it will work with Jason's xsane extension.
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Posted: Mar. 23 2008,23:41 QUOTE
A uci extension would be great.  I tried to make a .uci of xsane but was frustrated with getting sane to recognize libusb that was already installed into /opt/xsane-0.995.  I don't mind using .dsl, but I much prefer .uci if there is a choice.

EDIT:  If Wdef has done the sane.uci (the hard part), then making an xsane.uci that uses the sane.uci should be pretty simple.
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