Friday, June 12, 2015

Canon lide 220 in Ubuntu 14.04

Last week I bought a Canon lide 220 scanner. You get a decent device for the price.

(since I had to read several posts) Here are in a single page all the steps I needed to make it work in Ubuntu 14.04 (via xsane).

connect the scanner

ensure it is recognized

    lsusb

in teh output, search for the Canon device

...
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04a9:190f Canon, Inc.
...

ensure your user has access to the bus (otherwise  you'll have to launch everytime  xsane as root)

    sudo chmod u+w /dev/bus/usb//

in my case

 sudo chmod u+w /dev/bus/usb/003/003

Then, add this ppa to install latest version of xsane

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git

and install xsane

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gocr libsane-extras xsane-common xsane

if you have problems, install a couple of additional packets with

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gocr libusb-dev libsane-dev libsane-extras xsane-common xsane

now you can run

  xsane


 and the scanner is working!