Kevin's Social Blog: Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i on Debian Jessie (Stable) GNU/Linux

I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i and wanted to use it, on Debian GNU/Linux Jessie (stable).

This documents my own experience with getting it to work, on a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 laptop.

TL;DR
Debian Jessie (Stable) ships with an older version of SANE. To support the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i, download, compile, and install SANE from source.

OVERVIEW
Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) represents a commonly used GNU/Linux package API, which provides "standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware." (via)

Debian Jessie packages SANE into frontend and backend components:

sane - frontend packages, for the user-interface (for example, xscanimage, scanadf, xcam)
libsane - backend packages, for individual scanner support (for example, the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i)

Debian Jessie (stable) seems to ship with the following SANE packages installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep sane
ii libsane:amd64 1.0.24-8 amd64 API library for scanners
ii libsane-common 1.0.24-8 all API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii libsane-dev 1.0.24-8 amd64 API development library for scanners [development files]
ii libsane-extras:amd64 1.0.22.3 amd64 API library for scanners -- extra backends
ii libsane-extras-common 1.0.22.3 amd64 API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii libsane-extras-dev 1.0.22.3 amd64 API development library for scanners [development files]
ii libsane-hpaio 3.14.6-1+b2 amd64 HP SANE backend for multi-function peripherals
ii libsane-perl 0.05-2+b2 amd64 Perl bindings for the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Project
ii sane 1.0.14-9 amd64 scanner graphical frontends
ii sane-utils 1.0.24-8 amd64 API library for scanners -- utilities

Unfortunately, the shipped version of libsane 1.0.24-8 does not seem to properly handle the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i.

FIRST ATTEMPTS
Following the advice of Gavin Carr, from September 2014 (note: Gavin used Centos 6), I first attempted the following steps.

$ sudo sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [FUJITSU], product=0x128d [ScanSnap S1300i]) at libusb:001:009

$ sudo scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated Camera virtual device

Note: The results of running scanimage mean Debian did not find the device.

INITIAL WORKAROUNDS

The shipped version of libsane does not seem to currently include support for the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i. That is, Debian does not include the required firmware and configuration lines for it.

Happily, these two steps seem pretty straightforward.

Install firmware file
Copy firmware file 1300i_0D12.nal (hat tip, to Gavin Carr, for providing it along with his instruction steps) to folder /usr/share/sane/epjitsu :

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/
$ sudo cp 1300i_0D12.nal /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal

Update configuration file
Update configuration file /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf , adding these three lines:

# Fujitsu S1300i
firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
usb 0x04c5 0x128d

Retest with scanimage
After doing these two steps, scanimage finds the scanner!

$ sudo scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated Camera virtual device
device `epjitsu:libusb:001:009' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i scanner

SECOND ATTEMPTS
gscan2pdf
Install and run frontend scanner GUI gscan2pdf :

$ sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf
$ sudo gscan2pdf

However, after selecting the scanner, attempts to scan meet with error "Error during device I/O". x_x

scanimage
Additionally, I experienced similar errors, when running scanimage:

$ sudo scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated Camera virtual device
device `epjitsu:libusb:001:008' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i scanner
$ sudo scanimage --test -d 'epjitsu:libusb:001:008'
scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O

Note: At this point, I had set environment variables:

$ env | grep SANE
SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 (note: "a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed.")
SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=35 (note: "enables debugging output to stderr...useless noise")

FURTHER WORKAROUND ATTEMPTS

It seems, the shipped version of libsane, 1.0.24-8, has a few bugs. Per SANE developer discussions, it appears developers subsequently have resolved the bugs.

I first tried, unsuccessfully, to add developer Rolf's repository. However, when I attempted to pull in updates, "apt-get update" provided an error, which makes sense, given he provides Ubuntu support, not Debian:

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common (note: this provides "add-apt-repository")
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Ubuntu SANE packages from SANE daily git snapshots (http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/) or cloned from git (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=summary) if SANE daily git snapshot isn't available on the website.
Unchanged SANE daily git snapshots are ignored!
Please send scanner related questions to the SANE mailing list <email address hidden>.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp069_7hv9/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp069_7hv9/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key B7CC8701 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp069_7hv9/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key B7CC8701: public key "Launchpad PPA for Rolf Bensch" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
$ sudo apt-get update
... *snip* ...
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main amd64 Packages 404 Not FoundIgn http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main Translation-en
Fetched 127 kB in 3s (38.4 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-git/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not FoundE: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Some reading seems to imply this represents an error with attempting to pull Ubuntu updates to a Debian system, which the list post, above, did not immediately make clear. Note: "add-apt-repository" seems to represent an Ubuntu utility.

So, this fails because attempting to lookup Debian system packages on an Ubuntu repository represents a semi-sketchy thing to do. It has risks.

As a test, I did the following:

$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rolfbensch-sane-git-jessie.list

from:

# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-git/ubuntu jessie main

to the following, replacing "jessie" with "trusty":

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-git/ubuntu trusty main

Running apt-get update now works:

... *snip* ...
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en [1,220 B]
... *snip* ...

However, apt-get upgrade fails:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back: libsane libsane-common libsane-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libsvn1 sane-utils subversion
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,187 kB of archives.
After this operation, 131 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

I next attempted to install just libsane, however, I received an error, and aborted:

$ sudo apt-get install libsane
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsane : Depends: libjpeg8 (>= 8c) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

No thanks! Note: I received the same errors with "precise" and "vivid". Some reading suggested running "dist-upgrade" but I am, at the very least, smart enough to not go nuclear to resolve this, yet.

So, backed out the change and removed the repository. Will have to fine something a bit less sketchy.

$ rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rolfbensch-sane-git-jessie.list*
$ sudo apt-key list
$ sudo apt-key del B7CC8701

Backports? It seems Debian Jessie currently does not have any backports, for libsane:

$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
Add "deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main"
$ sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install libsane
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libsane is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.

So. dmesg reports the following:

$ dmesg
[18601.324625] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[18601.419949] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04c5, idProduct=128d
[18601.419955] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[18601.419959] usb 1-1.2: Product: ScanSnap S1300i
[18601.419961] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: FUJITSU

Note: some developers have suggested EHCI versus xHCI (that is, USB 3.0) might represent the source of the problem. This shows I am using EHCI.

COMPILING SANE FROM SOURCE
Uninstall SANE:
http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/vivid/universe/s/sane/uninstall/index.html

Compile SANE from source:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource

The Debian build logs showed this configure command:

./configure --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--datadir=\${prefix}/share \
--mandir=\${prefix}/share/man \
--with-docdir=\${prefix}/share/doc/libsane \
--with-snmp=no \
--disable-locking \
--enable-static \
--enable-pthread \
--with-gphoto2 \
--enable-translations \
--enable-avahi \
--enable-libusb_1_0 \
--enable-pnm-backend \
--without-v4l