This concerns the missing package for "imagescan" as well as iscan and sane-backends. But read on: It is still incredibly hard to get good support for scanners, especially with automated document feeders (ADF) or duplex scan. So, you might find this helpful: - Be aware: Scanners reported "complete" on sane-project.org might not be. Like here: hp5590 does not work with batch ADF correctly. And newer hardware is not tested by anyone. - Epson has quite good support for Linux. Best Epson scanners are the DS series. However: "Not tested" in sane device list. Hint given to try new "epsonds" driver. - Gentoo's sane-backends ebuild is lacking "epsonds" USE flag (as well as the more proprietary "epkowa"). Editing "epsonds" to the ebuild indeed creates the library epsonds under /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-epsonds (!). I could not test that without DS scanners yet, though. - The sane driver "epkowa" is not installed via sane-backends but when installing the scanner app "iscan" which is in portage. However, "iscan" and "epkowa" are in fact outdated and replaced by Epson's "imagescan" app. - "imagescan" is missing in portage. It can be downloaded from source (!) here: http://support.epson.net/linux/src/scanner/imagescanv3/ However, there seem to be WLAN or other network parts (?) being non-free. - When installing imagescan you receive sane drivers (called again "imagescan" at least unter Ubuntu) that work with sane's scanimage command. So, scanning via sane it probably then possible. Pfew! - Someone has tested Epson DS scanners and made an ebuild for it: https://github.com/utsushi/utsushi/issues/8 Don't know if "imagescan" license issues prevent ebuilds for it in portage. Reproducible: Always
Thank you for the report. > Scanners reported "complete" on sane-project.org might not be please report on sane-project.org. here is the link to the ebuild: https://github.com/sirjaren/gentoo-overlay/tree/master/media-gfx/epson-ds We need now a maintainer for this.
Please report one bug per issue: - One bug per each new package needed/wanted to be added (if you want to maintain ebuilds for them, feel free to take a look to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers ) - One bug per sane-backends issue (it seems it's epsonds and epkowa support missing from them... if you know the needed ebuild changes, report them in that relevant bug reports) - I don't know if epkowa support is wanted to packaging imagescan is preferred :/ Thanks
