# from Alex
# on Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:25:
>Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience,
> which make or model of a modern flatbed scanner preferably with the
> document feeder and either USB or Network interface or both will work
> flawlessly with Linux.
While not a flatbed, the HP 3050 (printer+scanner) is great for B&W
document-feed scanning. I would guess that anything else supported by
hplip would be a similar story (but I think that means it must be a
printer+scanner rather than just a scanner.)
I spent quite a bit of time looking for a decent scanner with ADF,
primarily for scanning multi-page B&W documents. I concluded that the
pricing was ridiculous and Linux support always looked questionable.
So, it's a laser printer *and* a trouble-free scanner for less than the
cost of an flatbed-with-adf driver headache. Plus, I like to see open
drivers paid for by the manufacturer.
I also have an old canoscan flatbed which works great for the occasional
color page I need (though some light reading a while back implies that
new models may have broken the driver by upgrading the guts.)
--Eric
--
Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it.
--Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplanetary robot navigation)
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