Doug Franklin writes:
> The problem with the Linux/GIMP solution is that scanner support under
> Linux leaves a bit to be desired compared to Mac or Wintel. AFAIK, the
> only support is S.A.N.E. (Scanner Access Now Easy) which only supports
> SCSI scanners, and not all of those.
SANE does now support USB and parallel scanners but the reliability of the
drivers varies with scanner models. See:
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html for information about
SANE and parallel scanners, or
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html for USB models.
It may also be worthwhile looking at VueScan (I'll have to remember about it
when I get a film scanner):
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
Of course, if the manufacturers wrote Linux drivers we'd have no problems. I
just wish the scanning protocols supported network-transparent scanning, so
I can hook the scanner up to the linux machine and access it from any of my
workstations (like I've done with the printer).
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E.
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