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Neat Receipts Mobile Scanner
I got myself one of those Neat Receipts Scanners and I am having a heck of a time getting it to work.
I am running OpenSuse 12.3 with kernel 3.3.10-1.16-desktop (output of uname -r) The scanner is detected by the computer but I can't use it, I don't have a driver. I can only use sane-find-scanner with sudo and this is the output: eric@linux-qa4t:~> sudo sane-find-scanner root's password: # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x1f44 [The Neat Company ], product=0x0001 [Neat Mobile Scanner]) at libusb:001:026 could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. Here is the output for scanimage -L: eric@linux-qa4t:~> scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). I was able to get my hands on the firmware which is a file called cism216.fw and I have that in the gt68xx folder. I tried editing the gt68xx.conf file. Though I could only do that logged in as root, there has to be a better way. I'm at my wit's end. Does anyone know someone who has a brother who has this thing working? Or is it a lost cause? |
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From the SANE pages on your scanner: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfg...Z-NEATRECEIPTS http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-gt68xx.5.html The second link has directions and an example config file. You've already posted the information that you need, so just copy/paste it into the config file. Also be aware that the SANE project has listed compatibility of that scanner as BASIC/Untested...things may not work correctly, if at all. |
Thanks TB0ne, I've already been through both of those pages. I was just hoping that I may have missed something or hope to find someone who has this scanner running themselves.
Would you or, someone else, know how to set the permissions so that I don't have to run the sane-find-scanner command with sudo? Everything I read says that I have to add my user to the appropriate group, but I can't figure out which group that is. Short of adding my user to each group one at a time and testing it. I just don't know if I'm going to get myself in trouble adding myself to a group with too much power. I still might try that tonight to see which groups work. |
UPDATE:
I opened up the scanner to see the chip set for myself, and I found I have been working with the wrong Sane Back end. I have a Neat Receipts NM-1000, and my device happens to have a GL123 chip set. I have been working with the GT68xx with the assumption that I had a GT6816 as listed on the Sane GT68xx back end list. Sane does have a Genesys Logic back end. I will be looking into that as I continue. I will keep posting my findings as I go, maybe this will help someone in the future. |
Ok I think I have the permissions issue solved, but I may get yelled at for my solution.
I logged in as root. Opened Dolphin. Navigated to /dev/bus Right clicked on the usb folder and changed the permissions to user:"eric" Group:"lp" Now what kind of trouble could I find myself in? |
It's been 3 years, my apologies for resurrection but I can not find other posts that suggest success in getting this scanner working.
Did you ever get this working? If so, where did you find the driver? |
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