Fujitsu just released their latest scanner, the ScanSnap IX500. Does this scanner work with Ubuntu, or Linux in general?
Fujitsu just released their latest scanner, the ScanSnap IX500. Does this scanner work with Ubuntu, or Linux in general?
YES
This scanner does work with Ubuntu with sane/xsane out of the box.
The SANE team got it working by hacking up a backend for the ix500. It currently only provides color scans at the driver level (gray and B&W are done in software). Pull down the sane-backend
project from the git repo, compile it, and install. There may be a few permission problems, but as root, I can run simple-scan
and get everything I want out of it.
This device prides itself on wireless however the wireless only works with Android and the iPhone, and to make matters even worse configuring the device to connect to the WiFi access point requires Windows or MacOS.
You won't get your full value out of this scanner with Linux. That's because Fujitsu doesn't fund or endorse the SANE project (their loss, and our loss). That said, it'll work to some degree.