[sane-devel] picking a robust sheetfed scanner

Frank Zago fzago@greshamstorage.com
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:31:30 -0600 (CST)


There is several scanners like that supported by SANE. That's
at least the Fujitsu, the Bell and Howell (in sane 1.07) and Panasonic
scanners (will be in sane 1.08). Only A few models are supported.
However this kind of scanner starts at about $2000. You can find some
used on ebay.

Frank.

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Dave Thomas wrote:

> I'm a little new at linux scanning.
> I need an sheetfed scanner/app that does the following:
>
> 1.  User puts a stack of documents on scanner
> 2.  User clicks a button on an X window (or maybe they fill in a form)
> 3.  Scanner scans everything at 200 dpi, full-duplex, preferably > 25ppm
> and saves it all as GIFs in a folder on the hard drive.
>
> No I refuse to do windows.  This'll take some databasing too but that's
> outside of this current problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Dave
>