I would like to announce the completion of the initial draft of the Scanner-HOWTO for the linux documentation project, and invite participants on the SANE-devel mailing list to comment on it.
The goal of this document is to bridge point A (scanner) to point B (scanner running successfully in linux) for the relative newbie as efficiently as possible. As such it should not be too technical, it should cover the most common hardware interface types, the required steps to reach a working result, likely pitfalls and how to recover from them, and places to go for help. It is not designed to be an exaustive list of harware in/compatibilities. Any help you can suggest to clarify or otherwise improve the draft will be greatly appreciated and may even result in you being mentioned in the credits if you so desire. The document can be found at: http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Scanner-HOWTO.html
