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Manutherium

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Registered: 2023-09-23

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Sane complains about the document feeder my scanner hasn't

Hello gentle(wo)men,

Today, I wanted to scan and archive some old papers, but Simple Scan said me: "Document feeder empty" (or something like that: crudely translated from french). The fact is: my "scanner" is a classic and domestic all-in-one printer, with a flatbed, and no document feeder.

Playing with Gnome and Simple Scan settings changed nothing. I installed XSane, who basically told me the same. I installed HPLIP and managed to scan with hp-scan in command line only, so the scanner works, but not the way I want. I tried a live USB Fedora, which uses the same Sane version, it worked. So it looks like an ArchLinux problem, and I would like to keep it.

Technically, the hardware is an HP Envy 5640 I use wireless and driverless, just because it's compatible and probably simpler. Even if I install HPLIP and use an USB connection, I still have problems scanning - not exactly the same, but here I didn't keep the error message. And as far as I remember, I used this very same scanner this way (wireless, driverless) some weeks ago, without any problems, but downgrading Sane (same version, just older build because my installation is quite recent) changed nothing. And in the console:

$ scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname HD Pro Webcam C920 virtual device
device `escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080' is a HP ENVY 5640 series [5340CE] platen scanner
$ scanimage -d escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080 -h
(Note, I show here only the printer specific options)
Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.9
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 297.011 to 297.011

Options specific to device `escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080':
    --mode Gray|Color [Gray]
        Selects the scan mode (e.g., lineart, monochrome, or color).
    --resolution 75|100|200|300|600|1200dpi [75]
        Sets the resolution of the scanned image.
    --source Flatbed [Flatbed]
        Selects the scan source (such as a document-feeder).
    -l 0..215.223mm [0]
        Top-left x position of scan area.
    -t 0..296.333mm [0]
        Top-left y position of scan area.
    -x 0.677322..215.9mm [215.9]
        Width of scan-area.
    -y 0.677322..297.011mm [297.011]
        Height of scan-area.
    --preview[=(yes|no)] [no]
        Request a preview-quality scan.
    --preview-in-gray[=(yes|no)] [no]
        Request that all previews are done in monochrome mode.  On a
        three-pass scanner this cuts down the number of passes to one and on a
        one-pass scanner, it reduces the memory requirements and scan-time of
        the preview.
    --brightness 0..2000 (in steps of 1) [1000]
        Controls the brightness of the acquired image.
    --contrast 0..2000 (in steps of 1) [1000]
        Controls the contrast of the acquired image.
    --sharpen 22080..-729268711 (in steps of 32547) [inactive]
        Set sharpen value.
    --threshold 0..255 (in steps of 1) [inactive]
        Select minimum-brightness to get a white point

Type ``scanimage --help -d DEVICE'' to get list of all options for DEVICE.

List of available devices:
    v4l:/dev/video0 escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080
$ scanimage -d escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080 -T
Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.9
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 297.011 to 297.011
scanimage: sane_start: Document feeder out of documents
$ scanimage -d escl:http://192.168.1.2:8080 --source Flatbed -T
Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.9
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 297.011 to 297.011
scanimage: sane_start: Document feeder out of documents

So, not only if I told scanimage to use the flatbed as a source, it still complains about the document feeder, but Sane doesn't even see any document feeder on my printer (this option is not available, only "Flatbed"). Any idea or tip?