Decent scanning app

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 September 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> 2008/9/4 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
>>> I'm at my wits end here.  I've googled and looked and tried and can't
>>> find a decent scanning application anywhere.  Back in the F8 days I ran
>>> kooka and it was awesome.  Problem is, it's not actively maintained and
>>> isn't in KDE4. They do have a new scan app called skanlite, but I"ve not
>>> found it in Fedora 9 repos (although it's possibly in a larger package
>>> like Kooka was).
>>>
>>> So, what decent scanning apps are out there?  I tried Gnomescan.  It
>>> sucked. There's no way to add a scanner device to it that I could see. I
>>> was going to go with Xsane, but wasn't sure about it.
>>>
>>> If I have to, I'll rebuild kooka for F9, but surely there's a scanning
>>> app in linux that is active and doesn't suck, right?
>>
>> What's wrong with xsane? Works for me.
>>
>> J.
>
>Well, after not finding any decent recommendations for simple apps, I
>figured I'd go with it.  No go.  I get 'no devices found' and no way to
>configure mine.  It's pitiful really.
>
Mark, how about posting your lsusb output?  It should be there someplace if 
the system recognizes it at all.

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>Mark Haney
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>ERC Broadband
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>
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