From: "DanielleOM"

On 12/30/2013 6:21 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "DanielleOM"

Just going through some initial tests here and I am having trouble
with the scanning software.

With Libreoffice, I go to Insert - Picture - Scan Request and the
Brother scan software starts off OK.

I can do a preview scan OK and view the image, but when I do a real
scan no image appears.

No idea where the scan result goes.

When using the old I had with Libreoffice the image would appear
after scanning.

Any setup changes anyone can suggest? Any one know of other software
that would work with Libreoffice and the Brother printer? My OS is
Windows 8, 64 bit, on a PC.

Danielle

I have had trouble with LibreOffice with Ricoh all-in-ones where it
could ONLY scan one page placed in the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
but MS Word got all pages.

Go back to the Brother software and make sure the Brother's TWAIN
software is properly installed. TWAIN software is the middleware that
sits between a software with scan capabilities (TWAIN compliant) and
the actual hardware (USB, Ethernet, etc).

In LibreOffice you would first "select the TWAIN source".
Insert -- Picture -- Scan -- Select source...

Then you can actually use the scanner
Insert -- Picture -- Scan -- Request

It is the TWAIN software, for the scanner in quesion, that actually
gives you the options on HOW to do the scan.

David

Thanks for the suggestion. Software appears to be installed OK, as the
Twain software does appear in the Select Source menu. From what I see
by looking around on the web others have had problems with TWAIN and
Libreoffice and have resorted to scanning outside of Libreoffice, saving
as a picture, and then importing as a picture. That seems to work and
seems to be a reasonable work around. Used the Brother ControlCenter4
software to scan and create the picture.

Danielle

Thanx for the update.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp