You’ll at minimum need the data (installed first) and the core packages. Many have been outsourced to Seiko, but someone recently asked me about the V300, and it turns out that Epson has Linux drivers available for the V300 at their downloads site. Sudo apt-get install libsane-dev libltdl-devĭownload the latest Epson packages. Sudo apt-get install xsltproc libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev So, you will have to make iscan from the source code. However, all is not lost! In fact, that wasn’t even the huge obstacle I ran into, as there are alternatives to the graphical front-end. The worse news is that the build does not create the graphical iscan utility. The OK news is that Image Scan for the Epson is not available in binary form. The good news is that SANE is available on the Pi. While the networked printer-scanners might have something to do with it, the SANE-2.0 that should have standardized a lot of things never materialized. However, it does point to a general problem with Linux in that too often applications are begun and abandoned before they become solid. I assume it has a lot to do with wi-fi enabled all-in-one devices that will gladly connect to a network share and scan documents to it. In fact, I keep getting a weird “Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to when I try to access the homepage, so the whole project is somewhat questionable. The SANE package is the core of all Linux scanning from what I can tell, but there are about as many broken links on the site as there are working ones. It looks like it has been a long while since it’s been properly maintained. Most Linux scanning is some pretty old stuff. I was prepared to disconnect it, but I decided to give it yet one more try, and I finally got some success. In fact, I had gotten printing working even over Airprint, so this was the last obstacle. I need my Epson all-in-one for scanning, and if I couldn’t get it working, then I was going to disconnect the Pi, reformat and repurpose (and I have other purposes for one, certainly). This is the article that almost didn’t happen. Therefore, I make no promise that the instructions below for setting up Epson scanning on Raspberry Pi is any way accurate. The information contained therein is probably out-dated by a few years. This is a reprint of a previous article, by request.
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