Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting an image from a scanner ify

OK, I will look into the "gscan2PDF" package.

The question is now what software does LO use to access the scanner with 
Ubuntu?  I know that with my HP printer and Windows, I have to choose 
the Twain package if I want my Paint Shop Pro software to be able to 
scan within it, instead of using the HP scanner software and then saving 
the image to be used.  So what is LO going to use to be its scanning 
module/driver/package that it used to access you Brother 
printer/scanner/etc.?

Each time I
"Insert> Picture >Scan >Select Source"
LO 3.4.4 crashes on me with Ubuntu 10.04.

You need to select the source of the scan first, then acquire the image.

Does anyone else have LO crash with Ubuntu when you try to select a 
source for the scanner?
My HP printer/scanner is a USB device, that does work with XSane fine.

On 11/23/2011 05:05 PM, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> I have a Brother MFC-240C Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax/PCFAX/Photo Centre.
> To the best of my knowledge there is no default scanner software for Ubuntu.
>       Simple Scan was installed with the system. I didn't like it so, I
> installed
>       Xsane Image Scanning Program, which was not much better, so I found
> and installed
>       gscan2pdf which is great.
> I just checked, whereis found both sane and xsane.
>
> Yes, I can use gscan2pdf to scan documents. If memory serves I can even
> copy and paste from it to LO. I just wanted to avoid running a 2nd
> program as LO is supposed to do this.
>
> BTW. A good reason for having gscan2pdf 0.9.x is that it has 3 OCR
> engines in it. Tesseract-ocr 2.x.x is the best, it recognizes several
> languages, though you have to download the language files. Once I have
> gscan2pdf 1.0.0 set up so that I can install it, it will recognize even
> more languages and scripts. As gscan2pdf 1.0.0 seems to include the
> Tesseract-ocr 3.x.x engine and the language files.
>
> On 11-11-23 04:25 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> > LO 32-bit or 64-bit DEB?  3.4.3? 3.4.4? or some other version?
> >
> > What is the Printer/Scanner model you are using?  What is the the
> > default scanner software you are using for Ubuntu?  Do you have XSane
> > installed or just Sane?
> >
> > I know that my Artisan Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax [network, wireless,
> > and USB]does not have a working driver for the scanner so I can use it
> > with Ubuntu [10.04 LTS], so I use my HP PSC-1410 [print-scan-copy -
> > USB] as my Ubuntu Scanner.  I have it buried and will have to un-bury
> > it to do a proper test for the scanning into LO.  But that will have
> > to be later, since I have to leave for a meeting after I sent this email.
> >
> > Any reason you do not scan in the image through XSane or other
> > package, save it to a file, then import the file?  Or at least for now
> > till we find out what is needed to get that option working correctly.
> >
> > On 11/23/2011 04:13 PM, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> > > I tried 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' in LibreOffice on
> > > Ubuntu. Nothing happened.
> > >
> > > I rebooted into Windows.
> > > The same menu item resulted in
> > >        1. the scanner being immediately activated,
> > >        2. the document in the scanner being scanned, and
> > >        3. the result being pasted into the open document in LibreOffice.
> > >           (Full 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size).)
> > >
> > > I rebooted to Ubuntu.
> > > There I found that if I:
> > >        first go to 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
> > >             I get a dialogue box in which I can select a scanner, and
> > >             set the dimensionsof the document to scan.
> > > Whether I the set dimensionsor not I can click the 'Create Preview'
> > > button,when I do.
> > >        I get a error box telling me I can not create a preview though I
> > > can scan.
> > >        Clicking 'OK' in the error box activates the scanner and scans the
> > > document.
> > > However, when I click the 'OK'buttonin the 'Scanner' selection dialogue
> > > boxeverything disappears.
> > >
> > > I learned, by accident, that I can:
> > >       1. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
> > >       2. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...'
> > > Which will now scan the document and past it into the open document in
> > > LibreOffice.
> > >
> > > The issue however, is that the default paper size is 212 mm X 276 mm.
> > > This is neither A4 nor US letter size.
> > >
> > > The issue worsenswhen I set the paper size to 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter
> > > size) and the size is automatically reset to 212 mm X 276 mm thereby
> > > cutting off all the edges when the document is scanned.
> > >
> > > Worst still the next time I start LibreOffice writer the paper size is
> > > reset to 212 mm X 276 mm.
> > >
> > > How can this be corrected?


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