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I used the information on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=625779. Now comes the discussion part from Marizu :

I’ve just managed to get this scanner working.

Firstly, you need to get a copy of the scanner’s firmware.
It will be in the Windows install (assuming you have it). The filename is Artec48u.usb
I googled on the filename, downloaded the Windows driver and extracted it on a Windows box to get the file.

Copy the Artec48.usb file to /usr/share/sane/artec_eplus48u/.
I made the file Artec48.usb readable by everyone, using chmod a+r Artec48.usb.
You should ensure that your user is in the scanner group (Administration->Users and Groups)

In the file /etc/sane.d/artec_eplus48u.conf you should find the following section:

# Since the UMAX AstraSlim SE uses a different product id, we add
# another usb section here.
usb 0x05d8 0x4009
option artecFirmwareFile /usr/share/sane/artec_eplus48u/Artec48.usb
option vendorString “UMAX”
option modelString “AstraSlim SE”
option ePlusPro 0

(I needed to add the line, option ePlusPro 0, or my scans had weird color banding problems).

That got mine working!
Marizu

Thank you Marizu