[sane-devel] Document scanner, hardware recommendations.

[m. allan noah]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Johannes Groedem <johs at netfonds.no> wrote:
> * "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>>> In case anyone should search for this particular model: We bought a
>>> Fujitsu fi-6240, and after (brief) testing it appears to work great
>>> with SANE (CVS-version) and is also blazingly fast.  It scans color
>>> pages at 300 DPI in 2-2.5 seconds per page using the document
>>> feeder.  (600 DPI also is pretty fast, but that's more than we
>>> need.)
>> The 6240 should be on the order of 40ppm, unless the machine cannot
>> keep up...
>
> It's close enough for me.  Who knows how they measure these things.
> My measurement was "time scanadf", basically.  It was done actually
> feeding the papers through the scanner before scanadf exited, so it's
> not entirely unimaginable that there is a bit of overhead in actually
> transferring and writing the scans to disk.

I wonder how fast it will go if you enable jpeg compression? You might
need updated scanadf (or the scanimage that comes with sane-backends
cvs)

allan
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