[ale] flatbed scanner

[Charles Shapiro]

I think I have Jim's old flatbed, still running ok last I checked on an
Emachines box loaded with Puppy Linux and a cgi-bin web interface I cobbled
together one weekend afternoon.  Yep, SANE is the way to go.

-- CHS


On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Todor,
>
> I'm 99% certain that all the flatbed scanners at MicroCenter will work
> perfectly with SANE. That should be the backend for all Linux scanner
> software. As much as HP irritates me, I would not hesitate to buy the $300
> one with the sheet feeder if I were in the market. I have a 10+ year old
> Epson that is USB v.1.1 only but it works perfectly still.
>
> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 12:58 -0600, Todor Fassl wrote:
>
> My flatbed scanner died recently. I'm blind and I need a flatbed scanner
> to OCR my mail and books and stuff. Anybody have a recommendation for a
> linux compatible flatbed scanner for use with tesseract?  I don't evn
> know how much I should expect to pay. I see scanners out there for $200
> and others for $1200.
>
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
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