Re: [libreoffice-users] LO not finding my scanner

On my (getting old now) 5.1.6.2 under UbuntuStudio, LO Writer works fine.

But Calc displays Insert > Media but the next 2 offers [Select Source
and Request] are greyed out and not available. Maybe not intended to
work with Scan ?

Philip

On 08/02/18 01:32, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:27:33 -0800
> Girvin Herr <gherrl@fastmail.com> wrote:
> > Another datapoint:
> >
> > I tried it with LO 5.3.4.2 under xfce and Slackware 14.2 Linux with
> > my Epson 1660 Photo USB scanner and it worked fine with Insert >
> > Media > Scan > Select Source.
> >
> > Girvin Herr
>
> And another datapoint:
>
> I tried with LO 5.4.4.2 under LXDE on openSUSE Leap 42.3 with an Epson
> Stylus Photo RX620 and got a 'Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice
> crashed.' (It's one of those annoyingly unhelpful error dialogs that
> won't let you copy the text. GRR!)
>
> After restarting LO, it scanned fine. I'll still prefer to use xsane.
>
> > On 02/07/2018 03:12 PM, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > After seeing Tim's post I checked and Insert > Media > Scan > Select
> > > Source... opens an empty dialog and Insert > Media > Scan >
> > > Request... silently fails.
> > > Version: 6.0.0.3 (x64) Build ID:
> > > 64a0f66915f38c6217de274f0aa8e15618924765 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows
> > > 6.1; UI render: GL;
> > >
> > > No issues with scan in either AOO or MS Office on the same machine.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > On 07.02.2018 22:50, Joe Conner wrote:  
> > > > Did you use the menu tree INSERT -> MEDIA -> SCAN?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 02/07/2018 02:25 PM, Tim-L wrote:  
> > > > > I just installed 6.0.0.3 64-bit DEB for Ubuntu MATE 16.04LTS.
> > > > >
> > > > > I was looking at some things and I went to
> > > > > "Insert/Media/Scan/Select Source".  LO could not find my Canon
> > > > > TS9020 printer/scanner. I even opened the printer's scan utility
> > > > > and still LO could not find the scanner.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the first time I looked into using a scanner withing LO,
> > > > > so I do not know if it is a 6.0.0 issue or 5.4.4 or earlier issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?  


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