[ale] flatbed scanner

[Jim Kinney]

That's the REALLY old one. SCSI interface.
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 14:33 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What
> > you
> > gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on
> > his
> > own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> > 
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