Does anyone have any recommendations for a scanner that meets the following criteria:
- color scanning is required, - ADF (automatic document feeder), - flatbed scanner for large/fragile documents that should not go through the ADF, - duplex ADF scanning, - no non-free driver is needed for full scanner and ADF support, - device should not be an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner; only a scanner is desired. I'm considering the following: - Epson GT-2500 Plus I have experience with this scanner and it works well, but I have no idea if it works without the non-free software used to scan from the flatbed and the document feeder. Does anyone have one of these (even if yours is an Epson GT-2500 to which you later added the Epson network card)? If so, any problems with SANE's network scan support? - Epson GT-30000 I have worked with the Epson 10000XL and glancing at screenshots this looks like a networked, document feeder variant of the 10000XL. The tabloid size scanbed is larger than I need and this scanner costs thousands more than I'd like to spend, hence I'd prefer to know someone else has successfully used this with SANE and no non-free software before I buy one. I'm also currently reading SANE-devel mailing list archives and h-node website (http://www.h-node.com/) and mailing list archives for help. I'm not opposed to other brands of scanner, nor am I particularly in favor of Epson scanners. I just happened to work for a place where they favored Epson scanners so I have some experience with a few of the Epson scanner models. I don't want the scanner to require use of non-free software because I intend to use the scanner for a long time across multiple OSes (binary drivers tie one to a particular architecture and OS), and because I want to have the option to know what is going on with the scanner should I desire to learn about this later on. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
