Re: Fwd: Scanners

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:59:31AM +0100, Stuckey wrote:
> I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported
> hardware list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many
> listed there and I know nothing about scanners. The list also
> doesn't list the last time it was updated.
> 
> Perhaps someone here can recommend a model or brand with which they

I have an Epson Perfection 3170 which is a very nice scanner.  There
are two drawbacks:

1. The driver is free but not open source and can be downloaded from
www.avasys.jp/.  
2. The driver(iscan) only works on 32-bit systems.  A workaround if you have
a 64-bit system is to install a 32-bit system in a Virtualbox (not the
ose-version) that can use the host's usb-system.

There are a few howto's on how to install it on ubuntu - which may
work for Debian also.  Once it is installed you can use the scanner
from the normal sane-tools and other programs like scan2pdf and gimp.

Regards
Johann
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