Linux software

[#1]

Have you seen this page (http://www.george-smart.co.uk/wiki/Epson_Perfection_2480_Linux)? It seems to be simply put together to get it working.

[#2]

Thanks,
Yes I had seen that page and trawled through several Mint forums, had hoped to check the scanner out on my other computer this weekend but have been kept busy outdoors with all this good weather.
Will try the scanner on Tuesday with my other computer as it has a clean copy of Mint on it, by clean I mean nothing else has been downloaded.
Thanks for all the suggestions to date, will let you know how I get on.

[#3]

That OCR is very impressive - I remember worked with some super-expensive awful software that performed badly on fax machines...

[#4]

Tried it out on a second machine but still getting the message no such file or directory so it's down to something simple that I am just not getting.
No intention of giving up but will have a rest from it for a while.

[#5]

OK lets take it step by step.
Open a terminal
enter:- (Copy and paste is easiest)

mkdir scanner
cd scanner
wget http://luc.byhet.free.fr/epson2480/esfw41.bin 
ls

Then post what the output of all that is please.
(It just creates a new folder called scanner, moves into it, then attempts to get the file)
IF it shows esfw41.bin  then move to the next bit

sudo cp esfw41.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan
ls /usr/share/sane/snapscan

And post the result.
(here's what I get minus the copy as I don't have this scanner)

Hairybiker@duo:~$ mkdir scanner
Hairybiker@duo:~$ cd scanner
Hairybiker@duo:~/scanner$ wget http://luc.byhet.free.fr/epson2480/esfw41.bin 
--2012-01-19 17:09:32--  http://luc.byhet.free.fr/epson2480/esfw41.bin
Resolving luc.byhet.free.fr... 212.27.63.149
Connecting to luc.byhet.free.fr|212.27.63.149|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 64000 (62K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `esfw41.bin'
100%[======================================>] 64,000       106K/s   in 0.6s    
2012-01-19 17:09:34 (106 KB/s) - `esfw41.bin' saved [64000/64000]
Hairybiker@duo:~/scanner$ ls
esfw41.bin
Hairybiker@duo:~/scanner$ ls /usr/share/sane/
gt68xx  sane-style.rc  xsane  xscanimage-icon-32x32-2.xpm
Hairybiker@duo:~/scanner$

(Note I have the esf*,bin file in the scanner folder)
If all that works then you can try the scanner again.

[#6]

OK this is what I get,
wget http://luc.byhet.free.fr/epson2480/esfw41.bin
--2012-01-20 16:06:33--  http://luc.byhet.free.fr/epson2480/esfw41.bin
Resolving luc.byhet.free.fr... 212.27.63.149
Connecting to luc.byhet.free.fr|212.27.63.149|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 64000 (62K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `esfw41.bin'
100%[======================================>] 64,000      110K/s  in 0.6s   
2012-01-20 16:06:34 (110 KB/s) - `esfw41.bin' saved [64000/64000]

[#7]

OK post the rest of the results cause it looks like it has saved it fine.

[#8]

This is what I get,
cp: cannot stat `esfw41.bin': No such file or directory

Just can't understand that.
I Can see the file so cannot understand why I get this message.

[#9]

can you post the whole list, from "ls" through to the copy, also a "ls /usr/share/sane/" and an "ls /usr/share/sane/snapscan"
It does seem strange that the cp cant find it when it is in the folder.

[#10]

ls
CONF        etc                    mozilla.pdf        Templates
Desktop    firefox                Music              Untitled1.pdf
dir        Firefox_wallpaper.png  Pictures            Untitled2.pdf
Documents  Graphics              ppdMP620-630en-1.5  usr
Downloads  iscan-2.10.0          Public              Videos
Esfw41.bin  iscan for scanner      scanner            XSane

[#11]

ls /usr/share/sane
gt68xx  sane-style.rc  snapscan  xsane  xscanimage-icon-32x32-2.xpm

[#12]

ls /usr/share/sane/snapscan
esfw41.bin  esfw41.bin.1  esfw41.bin.2

[#13]

Quote from: gleneagles

ls /usr/share/sane/snapscan esfw41.bin  esfw41.bin.1  esfw41.bin.2

Almost there, now "all" you need to do is sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and change the firmware line to be:
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/esfw41.bin
If gedit doesn't like running as root, I recommend installing leafpad, which is a very simple text editor.

[#14]

changed the line as advised but still no luck,
Following messages appeared, not sure if they mean anything,
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.1SPF8V': No such file or directory
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.I6207V': No such file or directory
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.1BMG8V': No such file or directory
(gedit:2476): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

[#15]

Tried to run snapscan and got the following ,
Error failed to open Device.
Snapscan:libusb:002:003
Error during device I/O