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fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

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Epson scanner drivers - iscan or imagescan3: difference, requirements.

Hi all,

I'm trying to get an Epson XP-235 all-in-one working as a scanner, and I'm having trouble piecing together what I need.  According to the Epson site, I need to install imagescan3, which I can get from here: http://support.epson.net/linux/src/scanner/imagescanv3/  (It seems to be the same as this Github repository: https://github.com/utsushi/imagescan).

It looks like that's a separate piece of software or a rewrite of the iscan package available in the Community repository (iscan 2.30.3.1-1) and recommended in the wiki.

So, if anyone can clarify, is there a reason iscan 2 is packaged in community and not imagescan3?  (Perhaps the latter drops some support?)
Does anyone else have experience with this or similar models?

I'm curious as to whether I need to package imagescan3 myself, or what the difference is between the two, since they seem to have the same name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Last edited by fishonadish (2017-02-21 18:23:55)