I just bought a Canon ImageFormula DR-C225 scanner. My computer is running the Ubuntu 14.04 operating system. The scanner itself did not come with a driver for Linux. However, I was able to find one on www.canon-europe.com. That driver, however, needs to be built using the autoconf, configure, and make commands. I am running into errors while attempting to build it.
"Make" gets stuck trying to use a file that it can't find. I looked through all of the online forums I could find; many mentioned similar issues, but none had a solution that worked for me. I called Canon's technical support line, and they told me that they don't provide technical support for the Linux scanner driver. They suggested I call a local computer repair shop. I left a message at a local computer repair shop, and they didn't return the message. I searched for "Linux help [my city]," and was able to connect with a guy who teaches Linux classes for a living, and he had to admit that he wouldn't be able to help me with this. I'm almost ready to send the scanner back to the store. It's a shame because this scanner got such great reviews, for example, on pcmag.com (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2472494,00.asp).
If anybody here can make sense of it, the error message I get from "make" looks like this:
client.c:30:24: fatal error: sane/sanei.h: No such file or directory
#include "sane/sanei.h"
^
compilation terminated.I have inspected the client.c file, and it contains the following:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include "sane/sane.h"
#include "sane/sanei.h"
#include "sane/sanei_net.h"
#include "sane/sanei_usb.h"
#include "sane/sanei_wire.h"
#include "sane/sanei_codec_bin.h"
#define BACKEND_NAME canondr
#define DEBUG_DECLARE_ONLY
#include "sane/sanei_backend.h"
#include "sane/sanei_config.h"
#include "Canon_DR.h"
