Re: Scanner recommendation, please.
On Saturday 19 March 2005 11:50, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend good scanner, not too expensive, but scans
>> faster than my
>> Epson Perfection 1250. I need to scan a bunch of documents and
>> this thing is too
>> slow. I can use xsane or vuescan. Something with a multipage
>> feeder would be
>> even nicer.
>
>For fast scanning I think you want a USB 2.0 scanner. Unfortunately
> in my investigations those scanners use newer chipsets, which often
> aren't supported yet. This was the case with the Canon LIDE 50
> family. Check http://www.sane-project.org for a list of supported
> scanners.
>
>In general though, when I inquired about this a few months ago I was
> told that Epson and HP scanners are well-regarded for working well
> in Linux. Haven't bought one yet, though.
>
I bought an Espon 1250u just weeks after they came out, and it was an
early test bed for 1250u support in sane. While I think the speed is
related to the slow usb, its otherwise a great scanner. The only
reason I'd replace it is if it died, which it appears not to be ready
to do even after all these years.
To the suggestion of doing OCR, that could probably be done, but in my
admittedly limited experience, I found the error rates went thru the
roof at resolutions below 1200, which needs hundreds of megs worth of
disk cache, and a surveyer to measure the speed. So I wouldn't
recommend OCR where you need 50 pages scanned yet today.
>Good luck,
>Andrew.
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