It's not clear to me whether I'm too late with this suggestion, but in case it is not, see below...
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 07:06 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote:
Greets, everybody . . .
I have a need to scan in a bunch of pictures and documents using my Epson photo scanner. As is not unexpected, the reasonably good Epson-supplied scanning software core dumps. So I've looked at the other installed scanning software, which is xsane, which kinda-sorta works, Simple Scan, ditto, and Kooka, almost ditto.
Kooka shows some hope, but it seems really flaky. For a start, it wants to put scans in "Kooka Gallery," but there is none such on my machine, so I can't tell where the hell it's putting them, though it seems to be saving them somewhere.
When faced with such a problem, try this (1) Open a terminal window (2) Run the command touch /tmp/whereami (3) Scan something and save the scan (4) In the terminal window type find ~ -newer /tmp/whereami
You may have some other program running which are gratuitously updating files all the time (web browsers, I'm thinking of you), but if you do these steps in short order, you should be able to pick your new scan out of the (small) crowd.
IIRC you mentioned in another message that the Epson scanner software is giving you grief. A long time ago I had an Epson scanner (two, actually, one at work and one at home) and they both performed admirably. It is too bad if the Epson scanner software is not cooperating for you. But if xsane is not working well for you, maybe if you say what specifically is going wrong someone here can help you.
Jim