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@PC2022: Thanks for sharing your findings. I don't know this particular model, I have a ADS-3000CN here which has a web interface to set some of the basic settings i.e. paper size.

Here's my findings for a Brother ADS-2600W using scanimage (multiple pages, A4, double sided, PDF output)

To scan more than one page, you need to use --batch, which also means you cannot specify an output filename using -o. Instead the scan is written to current directory as out1.pdf

To scan A4, you also need to specify the document height in mm, otherwise it defaults to 410mm which is far too long.

scanimage -d 'brother4:net1;dev0' --source='Automatic Document Feeder(left aligned,Duplex)' --mode='24bit Color[Fast]' --resolution=600 --format=pdf --batch -y 298

Works with xsane on Brother MFC L3750 CDW (with the printer being auto detected CUPS; not using the dedicated printer package) Thx!

@Konzertheld: your MFC-L2710DN seems to be connected by Ethernet, is it really so? Did you try connecting via USB? Also, how well does it react to printing requests?

Glad it's not my fault ;) Hope you find the problem. Anyway, thanks for reporting back.

@Harvey XSane doesn't work for me, scans only one page, but I just tested scanadf and it worked, so not an issue with this package I suppose.

@Konzertheld: Just tested with XSane under Wayland - works... But I am not a crack concerning Wayland as my laptop freezes the GUI when using a second monitor. So there might be more than meets the eye ;)

Hello, I've been having trouble scanning since I switched from Gnome+X to Gnome+Wayland, so I kindly ask for assistance in searching for the error, be it Wayland related, related to re-installing the system (which I did at the same time) or something else just coinciding with the other two. These problems are not related to the April 21st update of this package, they were there before.

a) After every reboot, I have to enter my root password when I scan something for the first time. I use simple-scan and when I close it afterwards and open it later without reboot or logging out, no password is needed.

b) Worse, I can only ever scan one page from the ADF. The scanner pulls the others and simple-scan waits for it to do so but does not scan them, it only retrieves the first one and then throws a kinda generic error message after the last page has been pulled through by the scanner.

c) Also, I used to see the progress of the page while being scanned. Now I only see the page pop up as whole after it was scanned.

For the sake of readability, I pasted my log elsewhere. Also note how slow everything is. I use a MFC-L2710DN as can be seen there. https://pastebin.com/skCX4dFV

Thanks for reading.

@maxfranco: Well looking into this I found that libavahi-client.so.3 is a dependency brought in by sane. It seems the -q query option depends on this (which makes perfect sense) - but there is no need to include it as sane should pull it in anyway.

@maxfranco: will take a look as soon as possible. Namcap is throwing some more errors I will have to investigate, but it does not point out avahi as a missing dependency. As it is working for you with avahi installed it is not completely broken at least ;)