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Got new Canon LIDE120 scanner and won't recognize

Asked by Wee Bear

Get only scanner not found when trying to scan.

When using sudo sane-find-scanner I get
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x190e [CanoScan]) at libusb:001:003

When trying sudo simple-scan I get now scanner found

When I use sudo scanimage -L I get
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

even after this sudo sane-find-scanner still finds it

I am using an Acer laptop running Ubuntu 14.04, LTS 32bit

Before trying all this I ran update and upgrade.
I also tried following instructions found on http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/libusb.html but had to create hotplug directory, nor did usb.usermap did not exist so created it. Also /etc/group did not have the group <scanner>

I also checked in sane.d and the file genesys.conf lists the Cannon LIDE120 as supported.

Anyway if there is any help please advise, thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://driverssupports.com/2014/09/canoscan-lide-120-driver-download.html

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Basically check the Canon website for drivers

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Wee Bear (psweber) said : 		#3

That page goes in a loop and sometimes back to Canon official site which says there is no driver for Linux

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Lots of potential solutions here
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+questions?field.search_text=Lide&field.sort=RELEVANCY&field.sort-empty-marker=1&field.actions.search=Search&field.language=en&field.language-empty-marker=1&field.status=OPEN&field.status=NEEDSINFO&field.status=ANSWERED&field.status=SOLVED&field.status-empty-marker=1

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Wee Bear (psweber) said : 		#5

Thanks, This question/thread solved my problem
284697 any support for GL848 based canon LiDE 120 scanner from sane-backend?
Used second half as follows but simply -upgrade and not dist-upgrade:
"bingo, it works and the other way with sane and all its libraries installed did the following

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

#then run
sudo apt-get update

#then run
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

and yes, it works as well!"
Thanks actionparsnip

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Wee Bear (psweber) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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