Re: flatbed scanner?
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week
> correlating the lists of scanners actually available for
> purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane
> web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of
> production :-) .
>
> Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good
> linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such,
> not photo or negative scanning).
>
> The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first
> painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't
> show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say
> it had blown it :-) . Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now
> (60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane.
>
I am working on a project where I wanted the imaging element out of a
scanner. But not knowing which one, I bought two scanners off of
people >on
craigslist. Both worked without me doing anything with Fedora.
Just look here first:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
It doesn't look good for the Canoscan LIDE 90
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON
Or get a Hewlett Packard Multifunction Printer which also scans. I
picked up an HP 3055 about a year ago, as a network printer and copier,
not really expecting that the scanner/fax would be that usable. Not only
are there drivers, it works like a charm *over the network* with
scanimage. You call it with something like this (5 parameters in this
case which allows you to set the numbering of the file name):
export hpaio=hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12
cd $1
scanimage --device-name=$hpaio --format=tiff --mode gray --resolution
300 -x 216 -y 280 -p -v batch=$2%d.tif --batch-start=$3 --batch-count=$4
--batch-increment=$5
The really nice thing is that the Auto Document Feeder works with this
setup. Really really nice for archiving stacks of documentation.
Geoff