Recently I’ve bought a Canon MF650C Series scanner and noticed that there is no support for skanpage / skanlite for this scanner series, is it known if this is due to known incompatibility / DRM / etc. or because it’s not been tested yet? If not I’d like to support and see how I can do the work to add it to the list, but may need to some pointers on getting started doing so.
Thanks in advanced.
Hi - Skanpage would use the SANE Project’s software as the underlying technology to connect to your scanner: SANE - Supported Devices
One way to check if the underlying SANE software is able to connect is by going to a terminal (like Konsole) and running the command scanimage --list-devices.
If you try that, are you able to see your scanner?
Ah, thanks @johnandmegh I tried your suggestion and noticed I got the same dialog as before when running skanpage via the commandline.
[bjnp] add_scanner: Scanner MF650C Series is not supported, model is unknown! Please report upstream
device `airscan:w0:Canon MF650C Series’ is a WSD Canon MF650C Series
It’s the “report upsteam” part that got me interested in seeing what I can do to report in.
The link and info is also very useful. Looking through it I’m going to guess it’s just a little too new to be supported yet. Their list is only going as far as the 645.
i-SENSYS MF645C | USB Ethernet WiFi | Complete
It’s a fairly new printer/scanner so I’ll see if I can contact SANE to give them a hand in adding this one to their vast list.
Thanks again and I’ll mark this as solved as it’s out of KDEs hands it seems.
Went looking and exactly as expected, the wonderful folk at SANE are already on it (Issue 734 and merge request 855 in their back-end). Should only be a matter of time.