simple-scan hangs

[hightime]

Anybody using simple-scan? It's the handiest scanning program I've found for scanning documents, however it hangs frequently. It will often hang if you happen to unplug the scanner while it's running. Or sometimes for no reason at all. When this happens you often cannot kill it even as root. It shows as a "defunct" process. Unfortunately you also can't scan anything with another instance or even with another scanning program until you reboot.

I've used in on my laptop under Linux Mint 17 without any problem. Mint is from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and has simple scan 3.12.1. I tried to install the deb from Ubuntu, but there is a library compatibility problem.

I was able to install 3.16.1.1 on my Siduction box, but it has the same problem as the default 3.17.1.

Anybody else experience this? Any ideas?

[dibl]

No problem here with skanlite, for years. Have you tried it?

[piper]

works great here too

[hightime]

Yes, I've used skanlite before, however it has limitations which make it less suitable for scanning documents:

- can't output to PDF
- can't scan multi-page documents to single file
- can't scan both sides in single pass
- no crop masks for standard sheet sizes
- can't crop at all unless you preview first. This makes it unsuitable
  to use with an automatic document feeder

I've found simple-scan to be much better for scanning documents because it doesn't have these limitations.

[dibl]

Ver. 3.14 is in stable.  You could install that and apt-mark it and give it a test. Kind of rolling dice, though ...

[jure]

or have a look at gscan2pdf