ken300: In the future, another option, if you're REALLY forced to use Windows for something like this, is VirtualBox; apparently Epson's scanning utilities work fine in VirtualBox, so if you have a copy of XP (keep it legal, kids!) or Win7 or whatever you could always install that in VirtualBox, install the Epson utilities and run VirtualBox in seamless mode. That way you're just basically using Windows as a backend to run your scanning program; no need to boot into it and loose all the Ubuntu/Linux goodness!
DoctorMO: I came across this thread because I was setting up an Epson V500 for my father, and your PPA did the trick; I went the simple way and "add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/doctormo-epson-scanners"'d it, but then of course I had to go into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and edit the repository info to change "karmic" to "jaunty". I know it's just a minor thing, but maybe for the sake of people who aren't veterans of Ubuntu, could you update it to add karmic to the list? It does seem to work perfectly with the same packages.
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