I understand that Crossover and Wine enable a Chromebook to behave like a limited Windows laptop.  I would have one more go and download the Windows 32 bit version of pscan onto a USB drive attached to your Windows laptop then transfer it to your Chromebook (within its Wine environment). Then proceed with the Windows installation. 

Otherwise, delete ChromeOS completely and replace with a very lite Linux distribution. Google is your friend to help you do that.

I'm using an ancient Acer EePC netbook and it's much, much easier to have in the car than a full sized laptop. Good luck.

 

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I've just climbed out of another rabbit hole called chromeos! Seems that Linux only works in ChromeOS through the command line terminal and not through the graphical interface (which is just the Chrome browser). But the pscan website has the terminal commands you need.

But I still think your first problem is getting the Chrome web browser to download the actual pscanloader program. I suspect Chrome only wants to download from the Play/Chrome store. I haven't found information to change that.

Good luck. Chris 

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My guess this a web link not the actual file. Look again at how you are downloading from the website. You may only be copying the link. Check your browser help if you ate unsure.

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I followed the Linux installation instructions on the pscan website. I'm using a Debian Linux distribution not ChromeOS. 

I downloaded pscanloader to $/Downloads/ from my Web browser.

Using the desktop graphical file app, I navigated to Downloads in my home directory.

I right-clicked pscanloader and dropped to Properties then to Permissions. I then selected the executable option then OK.

I hadn't used the terminal to make these changes and only opened it to check membership of the dialout group - again, instructions on pscan website.

A double-click on psacanloader file from the desktop file browser (app) runs the program as expected, initially downloading the pscanapp and the licence.

Being a Linux newbie I had previously moved the pscanloader to a directory for which I didn't have permissions and it couldn't download the additional programs. Keeping it in one of the /home/ directories was the solution. A note to that effect in the instructions could be useful to another novice!

I'm extremely pleased with my pscan.

Good luck!

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