Simple Scan – A simple scanning application
This is Simple Scanning Utility for your ubuntu system.
This application available in ubuntu 10.04 repositories but if you want to install in ubuntu 9.10(karmic) follow this procedure
open terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:robert-ancell/simple-scan
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install simple scan using the following command
sudo apt-get install simple-scan
Screenshot
First command doesn’t work!
please try now
it is scary to see that a lot of energy is spent on similar projects !
http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-scan/index
to cudjoe : You are so right.
When Lucid is released in October how will that upgrade affect the current installation of Simple Scan? That is: will it cause Lucid’s install/upgrade to balk? Should I uninstall SS and the ppa/repository line? I don’t want Lucid adding two separate “software sources” for Simple Scan, thereby screwing up the Syn. Pkg. Mgr., et cetera.
Will this app automatically “just work” with any scanner you have?
What about a Samsung network laser printer / scanner?
@Mark Preston. I always recommend doing a fresh install of any new version of the OS – no matter how stable people claim the “upgrade” utility is… Why risk it? Just backup your data and do a fresh clean install of 10.04
Thank you very much for this commands… very helpful info
This is the best intructions to install Simple Scan, I saw many pages and all of them can’t show so simple like this page. Thanks Very Much.
Trying to make this work with LaserJet M1212nf and hplip. Starts to scan then ends with messge “error communicating with scanner”.
It works!
Ubuntu 9.10
Scanner: Canon Lide 30
Printer: Samsung ML2010
Thank you, Robert
Thanks it the guys like you that make ubuntu
the system to have
ubuntu rocks never will I see windows again
Useing ubuntu for 6 years now got to love it
I am experiancing “page creep” when using the ADF on HP 5590 scanner. Do you have any suggestions on correcting this?
I cannot open documents scanned using simple scan using Adobe or any other PDF files reader