Scanners found by USB tools but missing from scanimage
USB scanners show up in sane-find-scanner but scanimage lists no device, so owners cannot use them.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 4 June 2020 · last reported 17 January 2026
What's going wrong
Several owners report that sane-find-scanner detects their USB scanner, yet scanimage -L reports no scanners at all.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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