Indeed, that’s what I thought as well at a first glance. However, if I just enter the scanner’s network name or IP address, Qoppa PDF Studio is not able to find it. The error message is interesting - it says “No saned found at {address}.”
I guess you are mixing terms here…
You might need to setup Saned to use the scanner on your machine, but the sharing is done via the Ethernet connection.
Each device that needs access to that scanner needs to use it’s own driver.
What you imply would be a scanner that is directly connected to your machine, which you want to share via Ethernet to other devices.
eg. That scanner is not connected to the Ethernet but your machine is…
Guess we are misunderstanding each other.
As indicated by the “No saned found at {address}” error message, Qoppa PDF Studio wants to contact a saned interface locally, in order to access the scanner.
Or, in other words, the scanners have to be presented to Qoppa PDF Studio via saned, which appears to be different to, for example, xsane.
Ok, just to clear-up term usage here then:
Is your scanner a “Network scanner” or a normal one via Serial/Parallel/USB cable?
To be more precise do you connect your scanner via the Ethernet port on your machine?
ok in that case what i said still holds
Because you are using saned as the driver between your scanner and your software on your machine…
Other devices/machines would normally need to install their own drivers to access the scanner (even when this machine is powered-off)
So the sharing is still done on Ethernet cable, not software on your machine
Is one end of your MFD’s ethernet cable connected to your computer, or to a router/switch? Splitting hairs, if the latter, then the MFD is connected to the network, not your computer.
Indeed, there is a switch in between, so it is connected to the network. Sorry for being not clear enough initially.
As for the sharing aspect: If I understood the linked KB article for Qoppa PDF Studio correctly, the attached scanner has to be offered as a shared resource, i.e. saned has to act as a scanner server that is further sharing the networked scanner as a resource.
In my particular scenario, the scanner is locally announced by saned in order to be seen by Qoppa PDF Studio running on the same computer.
Why all this? Because the scanner itself does not offer the same interface saned does. So its services apparently need to be translated for Qoppa PDF Studio to recognize them.
Unfortunately, xsane is not able to handle scanners with document feeders very well.
When using xsane for scanning, you can only insert one page at a time in the document feeder as xsane is not able to process more than one page.
In particular when scanning documents with more than one page, this is very cumbersome as you will have to scan and save each page in a separate file and concatenate all of them afterwards in a separate step.
Congratulations
I have a Brother DCP-J715W, and with xsane, only the first page gets scanned, all subsequent ones run through the ADF without being scanned.