[lug] Scanners?

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke 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.

It's a moot point - TWAIN isn't supported under Linux.

> etc.  And these people are all writing for Windows.  Mac is a distant
> second.  "What's Linux?" they all say :)

Not all of them.  The work done on the UMAX scanners under SANE is pretty
solid, helped by some input from UMAX I believe.  The support for UMAX in
SANE is the reason I went with UMAX.  Sean might have some input about HP
support using XVScan or other tools.

> 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.

I'm not sure SANE will work with USB scanners.  It does work with all SCSI
scanners and a few other types as well.  Generally, stay away from whatever
pseudo-scsi card is provided with the scanner and get a *real* SCSI card.
That will eliminate some of the headaches.

Note that if you'r a Gimp user and you like to stay on the bleeding edge,
you have to recompile the SANE package each time you install a new version
of Gimp.  I'm not sure why that is.  Maybe I'm just not doing something
right, but I end up having to rebuild SANE with each new 1.1.x release.

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