CanoScan 5000F USB Scanner

[k3nz0o]

Until Now I still expecting that Canon will release some scanner driver for CanoScan 5000F USB

[jeanmm]

hello,

 

seems to have a reference as "unsupported" here :

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver...n+5000F&bus=usb

 

What they advise:

Reporting Unsupported Scanners and Adding more information

 

If you can provide more information for one of the scanners that's listed as "unsupported" in our current list of unsupported scanners or even want to add a new scanner, please send all information you have to us. If you own an unsupported scanner, please send as much information as possible. Especially the output of sane-find-scanner -v -v and/or cat /proc/scsi/scsi (for SCSI scanners) or cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (for USB scanners) can help. If you dare to open the scanner, have a look at the text that's printed on the chips. That may help to identify the chipset. If you know that the scanner is similar to another one (e.g. supported by the same Windows driver), please also mention this fact. Contact us by using using the form for adding an unsupported device or by sending mail to the sane-devel mailing list. If you think anything in the list or on this web page is wrong, please also contact us or file a bug report.

[scarecrow]

It doesn't work... either with sane, or with non-free drivers, like VueScan.

You could ask Canon why they don't offer any support for their products under Linux, but you aren't likely to get a decent reply.

The VuseScan site says this scanner is supported only under Win32 and MACOSX, but with their program acting only as a frontend (Canon's scangear backend must be installed first, else-- poopoo).

For *nix they don't offer any sort of hope, yet.

Edited November 10, 2005 by scarecrow