flatbed scanner?

[Ed K.]

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

ed