Re: OT: scanner
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jose Rodriguez
<josec.rodriguez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text
> documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I
> plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't
> decided yet) with good quality settings. This is, I should not be
> able to notice font blurring while reading and zooming on the
> screen, and printouts should look basically perfect. Pictures are
> not critical (mainly graphs and the like), but it's a plus if they
> look right.
>
> From the Sane site I know which devices are supported, but...what
> technical specifications should I look for?
USB 2.0 rather than USB 1.1
1200dpi rather than 600dpi rather than 300dpi rather than etc, etc, ...
My "shortlist" ended up being:
Epson Perfection 2400
Epson Perfection 2450
Epson Perfection 3200
Epson Perfection 4870
Epson Perfection 4990
Some of these are only available second-hand from ebay (which is
exactly what I did). You might also find the following selected posts
from the "sane devel" mailing list useful / "interesting":
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/47024
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/7613
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8294
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8338
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9530
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/8214
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9289
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9292
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9529
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/9298
Hope this helps,
Jaime :-)
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