>On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, norman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am about to put my hand in my pocket and buy a scanner for scanning >> photographs into GIMP. I am having great difficulty in finding whether >> or not the scanners I can afford work with XSane. I go to Google, find >> various lists but there is no indication how up to date they are.Please >> help a poor old man make a good purchase. I can go up to ?100 sterling. >> >> Norman > >I recently found a used flatbed scanner for USD$15.00. >It is a CanoScan LiDE 35. I see all sorts of used flatbed >scanners at the thrift shops for USD$10-15. >It does a good job. The 4 buttons on it don't work in Debian, >but that's okay... XSane has all the buttons you'll need! > >http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html > >When I was in the used-computer shop, I simply asked the >proprietor to look-up the CanoScan LiDE 35 on the Internet >and he did. My $15 CanoScan LiDE 35 has the exact same >form-factor as the one in the retail store selling for over $100. > >If it's listed on the above sane-mfgs.html page, it should be good! >
I've got a Canon Lide 50 and I'm using it with Ubuntu 8.10 and GIMP without any problems. I works like a charm! -- Bernhard S. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
