Can't Connect to Epson Scanner

Have several different frontends (Document Scanner, Naps2, iscan, XSane) but none of them can connect to the scanner.

USB connection and it’s working. I’ve went thru a lot of posts on this but can’t find anything, so far, that works. Scanner is a V500 Photo.

$ sudo sane-find-scanner         

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x0b05 [AsusTek Computer Inc.], product=0x18f3 [AURA LED Controller]) at libusb:005:006

found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0130 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:003:003

could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error

  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.


$ scanimage -L
device `epsonscan2:EPSON Scanner::esci2:usb:ES007C:304' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner: flatbed scanner

XSane error…

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.3-arch2-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Got it working by installing a V500 plugin (iscan-plugin-epson-v500-photo) that’s available in the AUR.
Epson Scan2 is still not working (won’t open) but Document Scanner, Naps2 and XSane are now working.

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advice-

epsonscan2 from AUR=could never see my scanner

esponscan2 from Flatpak=can always see my scanner

I usually stay away from flatpaks but I might try that just to see if it works for me.

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE/Scanner-specific_problems#Epson and https://gitlab.com/utsushi/utsushi your scanner cannot work with Epson Scan2. The working Epson scan program would be iscan

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explains why xsane etc sees it. [the arch wiki never fails to surprise me as a catoguer of every linux nuance]

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Tried the flatpak version, sees scanner, but still didn’t work on my machine…

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