UIDAI

Unique Identification Authority of India

Planning Commission,
Govt. of India (GoI), 3rd
Floor, Tower II, Jeevan
Bharati Building,
Connaught Circus, New
Delhi 110001

DOCUMENT NUMBER: UID_620_ECMP

UBUNTU LINUX SCANNER

INSTALLATION GUIDE
DOCUMENT VERSION 3.0
ENROLMENT CLIENT APPLICATION VERSION 3.0.0.0

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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 3
1.1

OBJECTIVE OF THIS DOCUMENT ................................................................................................. 3

2.

SANE INSTALLATION .................................................................................................................. 4

3.

SCANNERS INSTALLATION ........................................................................................................ 5

3.1

4.

EPSON PERFECTION V33 ......................................................................................................... 5

TROUBLE SHOOTING .................................................................................................................. 6

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Introduction

This document describes about installing a scanner and its related libraries on Ubuntu
Linux system.

1.1

Objective of this document

In Aadhaar enrolment, a document scanner is necessary to scan and attach the proofs
provided by the residents. This document illustrates the steps to install SANE service for
Ubuntu and steps to install various scanner provided by different vendors. The system
(laptop/desktop) should be connected with internet to get the SANE library and its
dependencies.

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SANE Installation

Run the following commands and edit the files given in the steps to install and run the
SANE service.
1. Install SANE
sudo apt-get install sane
2. Edit Saned configuration
Edit the file /etc/default/saned and change the RUN property. Use sudo while
opening the file.
# Set to yes to start
saned RUN=yes
3. Edit net.conf configuration
Edit the file /etc/sane.d/net.conf and add localhost to saned hosts.
## saned
hosts localhost
4. Add the saned user to lp group
sudo adduser saned lp

5. Restart saned service

sudo service saned restart
Now SANE service is installed. Proceed with device specific installation as follows.

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Scanners Installation

The following scanners are tested with Aadhaar enrolment client and follow the steps provided
in respective sub section to install scanner.
1. Epson Perfection V33

3.1

Epson Perfection V33

Epson provides Linux drivers. Download the following files from Epsons support web
site (http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/) if not bundled with client.
iscan-data_1.17.0-2_all.deb iscan_2.29.15~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb esci-interpreterperfection-v330_0.1.1-2_i386.deb
Locate the above files in terminal and run the following commands sequentially.
sudo dpkg -i iscan-data_1.17.0-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i esci-interpreter-perfection-v330_0.1.1-2_i386.deb
Epson Perfection V33 is installed and ready to work.

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Trouble Shooting

1. Scanner name is not appearing in the drop down list of document scan window.

Install the scanner driver.

Connect the scanner and run the following command to get the bus number and
USB number on which scanner is connected.
scanimage L

This command will display a message similar to one given below.

device `net:127.0.0.1:epkowa:interpreter:002:008' is a Epson (unknown model) flatbed scanner
device `net:localhost:epkowa:interpreter:002:008' is a Epson (unknown model) flatbed scanner
device `epkowa:interpreter:002:008' is a Epson Perfection V33 flatbed scanner

In this message 002 is the bus number and 008 is the USB number.

Run the following command with bus number and usb

number. sudo chmod 2777 /dev/bus/usb/bus_number/usb_number

Ex:
sudo chmod 2777 /dev/bus/usb/002/008

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