18.04 and Samsung: Scan to PC not available

Solution 1:

Your best bet is to ask HP to release an application similar to Windows for Linux. This is a good place to start:

• HP Developers - HP Linux printing and scanning

In this Ask Ubuntu question it is asked:

• What should one install to make Ubuntu fully support the HP printer and/or scanner?

The answer there is to use:

sudo apt-get install hplip hplip-gui

However the full answer is more complicated than just the simple command

If you can't get help direct from HP you can try using wine to run the Windows application inside Linux:

• How to Use a Printer Through Wine

Solution 2:

If yo're using the Bchemnet repository and the sane library. You can follow my steps.

1. Open terminal and run

   sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-smfp* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
   

2. Edit the file some_samsung.rules ,you can find in /etc/udev/rules.d folder, and then include Samsung Model Numbers using ATTRS(idProduct)=="2070", ENV(libsane_matched)="yes"

Finally restart your system.