Kubuntu offers support for a variety of scanners. Want to know if your scanner is supported? If so then review the Scanner Hardware Support wiki page as well as the SANE Projects list of supported scanners.
Software wise Kubuntu comes with the application Kooka, the KDE scanning and OCR, installed. To access Kooka go to → → . More information on kooka can be located in The Kooka Manual.
Once you have researched and found out that your scanner is supported, installation is the next step. A majority of the supported USB scanners will automatically get installed. If your scanner does not automatically install and is listed as supported, or even if it isn't listed, refer to the following installation instructions.
Please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for Kubuntu.
For more information please review the following:
Procediment 1. Scanner manual installation
Install the libsane-extras package.
Alt+F2, at the dialog
type kdesu kwrite /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
and press the
OK button.
Locate your the correct driver for your scanner and uncomment it by
removing/deleting the #
.
Save and close the file.
You are now ready to use Kooka to start scanning.