[lug] Scanners?

[Chris M]

I used to work at the scanner software division of HP, one of my best
buddies is the *inventor* of TWAIN. What a stud.

I can ask him what he thinks, but I know that Sean has done quite a lot of
scanner work on Linux and it's worth getting his opinions.  I can tell you,
what you will run into is that the software written by the scanner vendor
will in general extract the most from the scanner's optics than third party
stuff.  In general. This is because they know where to warp the color map,
etc.  And these people are all writing for Windows.  Mac is a distant
second.  "What's Linux?" they all say :)

SCSI is the only way to go unless you enjoy pain.  USB is a nice way to
connect but I have yet to connect a USB port on Linux.

Chris
Peak to Peak Internet

> From: Charles Morrison <cmorrison at info2000.net>
> Organization: VALinux Systems
> Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:51:13 -0600
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Scanners?
> 
> On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote:
>> OK, so I'm back to considering the purchase of a scanner.  At this time,
>> it seems that a flatbed scanner would best meet my needs.  Does anyone
>> have any general recomendations?
> 
> Well, I'd stick with a SCSI scanner. I don't trust the parallel port ones on
> linux yet. I have a MicroTek that works just fine, both with a mac and Linux
> via SANE.
> 
> 
>> 
>> It might also help to mention that my OS of preference is Linux so I
>> really would prefer something with a SANE <http://panda.mostang.com/sane/>
>> rather than a TWAIN <http://www.twain.org/> interface.
>> 
>> The SANE web site has a list of scanners at
>> http://panda.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and there is a general
>> list of Linux supported scanners at
>> http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.1 .  Based
>> on the SANE page it looks like the Artek, DMC, and Umax scanners would be
>> the best supported choices since they are listed as "stable" rather than
>> either "alpha" or "beta", but I'm not against choosing something else if
>> there is a good reason.
>> 
>> I could even force myself to boot my MSWindows partition occassionally if
>> I need to go that route <smirk>.  I just thought I'd see if any of you
>> have strong opinions, good/bad experiences, etc..
>> 
>> - Wayde
>> (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
>> 
>> 
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> Chuck Morrison
> VA Linux - Western Region
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