[plug] Photo Scanner...

[Bernd Felsche]

David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:

>Scanners in my price range ($150 +-) noted on the Sane website as having 
>Linux drivers and being currently available, seem to be Canoscan lide 
>20/30 and Epson V200/350 photo - all of which receive the half-hearted 
>recommendation of "good" rather than the more desirable "complete".
>Does anyone have some advice to give please relating to model and 
>supplier - I'm sick of having to boot into XP to use my Canon scanner!

Which Canon do you have?

There's a commercial Linux utility that I've used called "Vuescan"
<http://www.hamrick.com/> It's not an alternative to "sane" :-)

It drives my olde SCSI-based CanoScan FS2710 pretty well.

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