Getting the Medion MD6228 to Work Under Linux

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The scanner is supported by SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/) by the genesys backend.

Get sane-backends and sane-frontends and build them. usb-support is necessary, which requires libusb-dev.

Use scanimage -L to check if the scanner can be found by sane. If it fails as a normal user, try as root, as there can be some usb-permission problems.

An image can now be scanned with scanimage:

scanimage --mode=Color --depth=16 --format=tiff -p > image.tif

On the scanner I used it was not possible to scan more than one image, after that I had to restart that scanner. I am not sure if this was a scanner problem or a setup problem.

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