Getting Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i to work on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
By Leo Gaggl
Upgrade or install SANE backends
Since the version of SANE in the Ubuntu 16.04LTS repos is not working for this scanner you either need to install from sources (see this blog) or from this PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git<br></br>sudo apt update<br></br>sudo apt install sane-backends tesseract-ocr gscan2pdf
Security
Add yourself to the ‘scanner’ group to be able to use the scanner.
sudo usermod -a -G scanner USERNAME
Checking SANE
Check for the libsane version (needs to be at least libsane.so.1.0.26 not libsane.so.1.0.25 which is in the Ubuntu repos)
sudo ldconfig -v | grep libsane
This should show something like: libsane.so.1 -> libsane.so.1.0.26
Add udev rules for the scanner
sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/79-scanner.rules<br></br>#add the following<br></br>``Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i<br></br>ATTRS{idVendor}=="04c5", ATTRS{idProduct}=="128d", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
Get the firmware for the FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i
sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/epjitsu<br></br>cd /usr/share/sane/epjitsu<br></br>sudo wget https://github.com/ckunte/scansnap-firmware/raw/master/1300i_0D12.nal
Testing
scanimage -L
device `epjitsu:libusb:002:027′ is a FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i scanner
You can now use gscan2pdf to scan, clean and OCR from the ScanSnap S1300i.