replacement or fix for gscan2pdf in lucid?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 07:28:23 pm D. R. Evans wrote:
> Following my upgrade to lucid, whenever I run gscan2pdf (which has 
worked
> perfectly for many releases, and was first recommended to me 
here), I get
> the error:
>   scanimage: unrecognized option '--device-
name=epson2:libusb:005:002'
> 
> Can someone suggest either: (1) a way to get past this error 
message; or
> (2) some other program that can scan and produce PDFs. (I'd kind 
of like to
> keep gscan2pdf since it's worked so well for so long, but I'm pretty
> desperate so if there's no alternative but to switch to another 
program,
> I'm willing to do that).
> 
>   Doc

Never used it before, but I fired it up and it works out of the box. I 
didn't use any command line switches, but it found my scanner after it 
scanned for devices. If you are running it via the command line, leave 
off the device name portion and let it find your scanner

You can also check for the device id like this
$ scanimage -L

Both openoffice and krita, kword, etc can export to pdf but it isn't 
quite as easy

In openoffice, you can go to insert-- picture --scan

in Kword Insert -- scan image

clay