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| title | description | date | tags | ||
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| How to setup a Fujitsu Scansnap S1300i on Gentoo Linux | My installation notes | 2022-10-20 |
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Introduction
I just got myself a document scanner in order to digitalise some documents before I lose them for good. The linux setup required some google-fu so here is a report of what I had to do to get it working.
Installation notes
I did not need to change anything to my kernel configuration, that was nice!
I installed the following new packages (the SANE_BACKEND variable should be added to your make.conf):
SANE_BACKENDS="epjitsu" emerge media-gfx/sane-backends media-gfx/simple-scan -q
Your user should be in the scanner and usb groups:
gpasswd -a <username> scanner
gpasswd -a <username> usb
A fujitsu SANE_BACKEND exists, but it is a trap, you really need the epjitsu one. Simple-scan is a simple gnome application which is very simple to use. I first tried xsane but it was not user friendly at all!
The tricky part
Nothing worked at this stage, the scanner was not detected by neither simple-scan nor scanimage -L, but sane-find-scanner could see it just fine. That is because we are missing a firmware which can be found on the web archive. Download this file then put it as root in /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/:
mkdir -p /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/
mv /home/julien/Downloads/1300i_0D12.nal /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
If you already plugged your scanner before copying this firmware file, unplug it then plug it again and everything should now work. Just launch simple-scan and enjoy your scanner!