I seem to be awfully close to getting my scanner to work, but first I have to 
have it be recognized. 

dmesg confims its there.
ss0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <UMAX, Astra 1200S, V2.7> SCSI2 6/scanner 
fixed

sane isn't so sure
sane-find-scanner: found scanner "  " at device /dev/ss0

scanimage even less so.
scanimage -d umax:/dev/scanner
scanimage: open of device umax:/dev/scanner failed: Invalid argument
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Paul Beard
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Seattle WA 98115

To be a kind of moral Unix, he touched the hem of Nature's shift.
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