Ubuntu – CanoScan Lide 120 on Ubuntu 14.04

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Just bought a 'Canoscan Lide 120' scanner that I plan to use on a windows 7 laptop. In Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit it is detected by 'sane-find-scanner' but with 'Simple Scan' I just get: "No scanners detected". Any hope???

Best Answer

Now the canon LiDE 120 runs on Ubuntu 14.04 and even tested in 16.04 as well, for this you have to do the following:

To add the SANE PPA so that you have the latest version of SANE (backport), open your terminal and type

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git

then run

$ sudo apt update

then run

$ sudo apt full-upgrade

Or if you do not have sane and all its libraries installed then install it by executing the following.

$ sudo apt -y install sane libsane libsane-common sane-utils libsane-extras

you can also use synaptic package manager to check and make sure that sane is up-to-date with all necessary libraries.

Now your scanner should work with any frontends like simple-scan or gscan2pdf.

or you can compile sane-backend from the latest source, that will also do the job, in that case you have to have libusb-dev build-essential libsane-dev and for avahi network support libavahi-client-dev libavahi-glib-dev installed on your system. To do the compiling, you can follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource and it will help you some more https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane

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Try this:

Open a terminal.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libusb-dev build-essential libsane-dev git-core
$ git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git
$ cd sane-backends
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

Check if recognized his idVendor and idProduct, run:

$ dmesg

This command should report something like:

...... usb ?-?: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=190e

Continue running:

 $ sudo nano /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

And add the following lines at the end of file:

# Canon CanoScan Lide 120
 ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="190e", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

Ctrl + U Paste. Ctrl + O Save file. Ctrl + X Close nano.