On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text > documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I > plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't > decided yet) with good quality settings. This is, I should not be > able to notice font blurring while reading and zooming on the > screen, and printouts should look basically perfect. Pictures are > not critical (mainly graphs and the like), but it's a plus if they > look right. > > From the Sane site I know which devices are supported, but...what > technical specifications should I look for?
USB 2.0 rather than USB 1.1 1200dpi rather than 600dpi rather than 300dpi rather than etc, etc, ... My "shortlist" ended up being: Epson Perfection 2400 Epson Perfection 2450 Epson Perfection 3200 Epson Perfection 4870 Epson Perfection 4990 Some of these are only available second-hand from ebay (which is exactly what I did). You might also find the following selected posts from the "sane devel" mailing list useful / "interesting": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/47024 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/7613 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8294 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8338 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9530 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8214 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9289 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9292 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9529 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9298 Hope this helps, Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]