Scanning with sane gives "invalid argument"

[odysseus]

I have detected my scanner and it shows in the list, but all attempts at scanning gives "invalid argument", also with xsane. It`s an Epson Perfection V600 Photo.

[arun-g@macbook-air ~]$ scanimage -L
device `epson:libusb:001:002' is a Epson flatbed scanner
[arun-g@macbook-air ~]$ scanimage --format png > test.png
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
[arun-g@macbook-air ~]$

[odysseus]

I solved the scanner problem by installing Vuescan and paying for it! Seems like my scanner is not supported with SANE.

[billgood4]

Thanks for the pointer.
sane listed epson perfection 4490 but didn't work.

Bill

[TrevorH]

I've had that error on sane here and it was something to do with the size it had been told to scan, hence the errors about setting x and y values to -32768. I don't recall exactly what I changed to fix it but it was an easy settings tweak to do with image size.

[odysseus]

I found out my scanner works with SANE, but you have to install this package from Epson: https://download2.ebz.epson.net/iscan/p ... rpm.tar.gz

You have to have this package for VueScan to work also, they pointed me to the right place so it was worth the license.