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Looking for Epson Perfection V500 scanner drivers

Asked by Richard L Juetten

Epson has discontinued scanner driver support for the Perfection V500 Photo scanner as of the end of 2012. People who sucessfully installed V500 drivers on Ubuntu prior to 2013 identified the following files that worked.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try installing iscan and iscan-data

Epson scanners seem to need those 2 packages.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Why do you think that Epson has discontinued scanner driver support?
Just open http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX type V500 into the search box and click on the icon with the magnifying glass, on the page that opens click on the 'Download' button besides "core package&data package".
On the next page accept the license agreement, and finally download iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb or iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb (depending on your architecture) and iscan-data_1.23.0-1_all.deb, and install the two packages. See userg_revQ_e.pdf for instructions.

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Richard L Juetten (roscoe-fs200a) said : 		#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Richard L Juetten (roscoe-fs200a) said : 		#4

An additional comment: Just installing the two files IDed in your answer, i.e. iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb and
iscan-data_1.23.0-1_all.deb did not work. I looked for the plugin file, iscan-plugin-gt-x770_2.1.2-1_i386.deb and installed it. Then my scanner woke up.