Quick answer: Hook up the scanner, go into the Mandrake Control Center (MCC), choose Hardware, then Scanner, and follow the prompts to auto-detect your scanner, if it is supported. Then look in the menu under "Other Applications/Multimedia/Graphics" for the programs XSane or Kooka and you're away laughing.
Long Answer: Not all scanner chipsets are supported under Linux, thanks to some makers not grokking the Open Source thing. The backend software for scanner access in Linux is called SANE, and the website at http://www.sane-project.org/ has a comprehensive list of all the supported scanners which you may want to check out first. If your scanner is supported, then MCC should find and set it up OK. There's 3 main programs I know of for doing scanning, XSane, Kooka, and QuiteInsane, in addition to the Gimp which has a scanning module. XSane is by far the most powerful, concentrating purely on the scanning side of things with a million options and tools, but has a slightly quirky Gtk/Gnome interface. Kooka is the official KDE app, has a slightly dumbed down set of scanning options married with a image management system (I'm not a big fan, but YMMV). QuiteInsane is a QT app a lot like XSane, and if you're handy with the command line you can re-compile it to use the KDE file & print dialog boxes. For OCR, there's a number of engines that all the programs can call, GOCR being the most common, but there are others. In short, the Linux apps give you access to all the different options supported by Sane for that scanner, including resolution, with XSane being the best of the bunch. John. P.S. Please remove your e-mail reply-to address when posting to the list, otherwise replys only go to you and the list loses the benefit of the answer. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:08, SME Admin wrote: > Hiya > > I've a flatbed parallel port scanner that I'd like to use with Mandrake 10 > that I've got installed here. > > Installing it shouldn't be a problem, but if there is you'd know about it > here :) Any suggestions?! > > I was wondering what sort of programs anyone here would reccomend for > getting the best out of it? > > On Windows I've got the choice to change the resolution and the like, so > I'd be looking for the linux equivilant. > > Any help/ideas/suggestions please?
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