flatbed scanner?

[R. G. Newbury]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Tom Horsley wrote:

 > > The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week
 > > correlating the lists of scanners actually available for
 > > purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane
 > > web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of
 > > production  :-) .
 > >
 > > Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good
 > > linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such,
 > > not photo or negative scanning).
 > >
 > > The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first
 > > painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't
 > > show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say
 > > it had blown it  :-) . Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now
 > > (60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane.
 > >

 >I am working on a project where I wanted the imaging element out of a
 >scanner. But not knowing which one, I bought two scanners off of 
people >on  craigslist. Both worked without me doing anything with Fedora.
 > Just look here first:
 >http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
 >It doesn't look good for the Canoscan LIDE 90
 >http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON

Or get a Hewlett Packard Multifunction Printer which also scans. I 
picked up an HP 3055 about a year ago, as a network printer and copier, 
not really expecting that the scanner/fax would be that usable. Not only 
are there drivers, it works like a charm *over the network* with 
scanimage. You call it with something like this (5 parameters in this 
case which allows you to set the numbering of the file name):


export hpaio=hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12
cd $1
scanimage --device-name=$hpaio --format=tiff --mode gray --resolution 
300 -x 216 -y 280 -p -v batch=$2%d.tif --batch-start=$3 --batch-count=$4 
--batch-increment=$5

The really nice thing is that the Auto Document Feeder works with this 
setup. Really really nice for archiving stacks of documentation.


Geoff