[lug] Scanners?

[Charles Morrison]

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
Sr Systems Engineer