Hello, Jon Niehof schrieb: > http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/plustek-opticbook-3600.html > and links from that page.
Sorry, I only looked at the 'CVS'-section of 'Supported Devices',=20 thinking this would give me the most complete list... I just sent a mail to Plustek, as part of my work at Technische=20 Universit=E4t Berlin, because we're thinking of buying one there. I made=20 clear that Linux compatibility is an important issue in professional=20 environments like ours. At least, on the German Plustek-site they have a page telling about=20 Gerhard J=E4ger's drivers:=20 http://www.plustek.de/Home/Service/Linux/body_linux.htm However, if you consider that on the one hand they reference to these=20 drivers without taking any responsibility for them, and on the other=20 hand they don't even give basic technical information to OpenSource=20 developers (as said on=20 https://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/PlustekOpticBo= ok3600InLinux), I doubt that this behaviour puts Plustek into good light... > It's really too bad; over at Distributed Proofreaders we're > drooling over the thing. Looking at what DP is doing, I wouldn't expect anything else than you=20 making fun about it... (In our case, we're definitely not planning to=20 build up a full-sized digital archive :-) Do you mean the device itself is 'too bad', in terms of technical=20 quality? I don't even expect a too high image quality from it, but at=20 least it promises to be a handy tool when there's only a couple of books=20 to be scanned per month. (And I like the idea of adopting my tool 'unpaper' to work with it.) Are there any devices similiar to the Plustek OpticBook 3600? By other=20 manufacturers? Bye Jens
