{"id":999,"date":"2011-12-18T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:46:50","slug":"configuring-the-plustek-opticslim-m12-for-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2011\/12\/configuring-the-plustek-opticslim-m12-for-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring the Plustek Opticslim m12 for Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"M12\" src=\"http:\/\/plustek.com\/products\/m12\/m12_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"192\" \/>After six months or so of being wowed by a little portable scanner in a doctor&#8217;s office, the spouse and I finally decided to buy one.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted one that&#8217;s compatible with Ubuntu, since that&#8217;s our main OS around home, so I did a little research, and found some info about the Plustek Opticslim m12 (it&#8217;s the same model that the &#8220;NeatReceipts&#8221; company rebrands for their own scanners).<\/p>\n<p>Found one on Ebay, bought it (for 1\/3 of the price of a NeatReceipts model), and plugged it in&#8230; and of course it didn&#8217;t work.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the world of Ubuntu with proprietary peripherals, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 The &#8220;Simple Scan&#8221; program that&#8217;s built-into Ubuntu recognized the make and model, oddly enough, but it wouldn&#8217;t scan, throwing up an error message whenever I tried.<\/p>\n<p>I did a little bit of searching, and found a site that talked about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishandcross.com\/blog\/?p=844\">http:\/\/www.fishandcross.com\/blog\/?p=844<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, all you need to do is download the driver file mentioned from the site at <a href=\"http:\/\/gkall.hobby.nl\/gt6816-07b3-0412.html\">http:\/\/gkall.hobby.nl\/gt6816-07b3-0412.html<\/a> and copy it to your \/usr\/share\/sane\/gt68xx folder.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, just start up the Simple Scan program again, and scan away!\u00c2\u00a0 Works really well &#8212; doesn&#8217;t auto-crop or anything like the provided Windows software does, but that&#8217;s cool.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>To Visitors:\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re visiting this page, trying to find information about how to get this scanner to work, and you&#8217;re trying it years after this article was written, I can&#8217;t guarantee these instructions will work &#8212; if you know Ubuntu, stuff changes from version to version sometimes.\u00c2\u00a0 Hacks and fixes that&#8217;ll work one year won&#8217;t always work the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six months or so of being wowed by a little portable scanner in a doctor&#8217;s office, the spouse and I finally decided to buy one.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted one that&#8217;s compatible with Ubuntu, since that&#8217;s our main OS around home, so I did a little research, and found some info about the Plustek Opticslim m12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-g7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}