Bug 705288

Summary:	media-gfx/sane-airscan - Apple AirScan (eSCL) driver
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joakim Tjernlund 2020-01-12 14:26:24 UTC

Apple AirScan is akin to their AirPrint technology for supporting various printers from Apple devices without the need for specialized drivers. Multi-function printers compliant with AirPrint also need to implement AirScan for scanner functionality, thus opening up most of today's multi-function printers to supporting this scanning standard.


https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-AirScan-SANE-Work
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-13th-january-2020/13864/4

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2020-06-29 00:24:51 UTC

The escl backend was added in 2.0.30 to media-gfx/sane-backends. Hope that helps!

Comment 2 Joakim Tjernlund 2020-06-29 08:59:20 UTC

(In reply to Sam James (sec padawan) from comment #1)
> The escl backend was added in 2.0.30 to media-gfx/sane-backends. Hope that
> helps!

Yes, I noticed that just now :)
My scanner (MG5500) works too.
Just want to mention that sane-airsan has support for WSD now in case
someone needs it.

Also, if adding this pkg, use the meson build system, it works without tinkering