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What's the best Epson scanner software for Mint? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've got an Epson Stylus SX435W all in one. It's working with Image Scan! for Linux 2.30.4, but is not being detected by Epson Scan 2. I've checked everything I can find, it just looks like my scanner is too old for the software.

Simple Scan seems to be too simple, but I don't want to have to launch something like GIMP and manually tweak everything.

I ideally want something with a built in colour enhancement tool like the Epson Windows software, and something that will remember the directory and name of the scan e.g. if I set it to ~/Pictures/Scans/Scan001.jpg, the next scan will automatically be ~/Pictures/Scans/Scan002.jpg etc. Descreening and Backlight Correction are both tools that I use fairly regularly too, as I mostly scan old photos. There's a screenshot of the Windows Epson software on this page if it helps:

https://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/wfp4520/wfp4520ug/source/scanners/source/scanning_software/tasks/starting_scan_icon.html

Does anyone know of anything that might be a good alternative please?

EDIT: I'm just trying out XSane now. XSane and Image Scan! both give a slight colour cast, purple on this particular photo, but XSane seems to have more control over the settings.

I'm currently avoiding VueScan due to the price. While it does look like it's great software, I can't currently justify paying £50 when I've already got working software under Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

Possible non-OSS solution

Although I am an open source enthusiast, there are few application where I use commercial, even non-OSS solutions on Linux. One of this exceptions is for scanning.

Background: I "administrate" some legacy Epson scanners used with my family's Linux boxes and got them all to run with a software called VueScan, with the following restrictions:

Perfection 3490 worked out of the box, no drivers required
Perfection 3170 requires Epson drivers (iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb, iscan-plugin-gt-9400_1.0.0-2_i386.deb), but only runs on 32bit Linux
Perfection V30 requires Epson drivers (scan-gt-f720-bundle-2.30.4.x64.deb.tar.gz) and simply works on 64bit Debian

As you see, it might be a bit of luck, if a device works out of the box or not.

Unfortunately your Epson Stylus SX435W seems not to be listed under the supported Epson devices (click red button "All drivers" to see all supported Epson scanners).

If you happen to find no solution, I suggest to use the trial version of VueScan and check if your Epson simply runs or not.

EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention. that the VueScan GUI has plenty of those processing options you are searching for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the detailed reply :)

It does support the SX435W, but they've listed it without the Stylus part of the name:

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/epson_stylus_sx430.html#technical-information

I've got no objection to using non OSS software, especially if it helps me to switch to Linux full time, but I can't justify paying for an alternative while I'm still dual booting. Apologies, I should have made that clearer.

Thanks again for your help :)