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I have an HP Deskjet with integrated scanner. It has a "Scan" button on its top, but this button does not interact with the xsane program on my Debian machine: To get a page scanned, I have to initiate the scanning process from xsane.

Is there a setting (or a scan program) that allows me to press the scan button and cause the program to scan a page?

Braiam
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If the scanner's buttons are supported by sane you can use scanbd to make them functional. You can find detailed instructions here.

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    Archived link, as the original does not work anymore: https://web.archive.org/web/20201031152413/https://thehomeserverhandbook.com/2012/03/03/scanbd_part1/ – adam Mar 01 '21 at 20:33
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    And here too, in case the archived vanishes: https://i.imgur.com/hFkKu4W.png , https://i.imgur.com/nSEwuR1.png , https://i.imgur.com/dfb1kpJ.png (3 pages) – Konstantinos Jan 27 '22 at 10:19
  • The repository has moved [to Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/scanbd). – Jonathan Aug 12 '23 at 10:24