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Dances With Crows
[ Followup set to comp.periphs.scanners ]
I'm finally going to buy a scanner, and would like some opinions on what
might work. My requirements are modest; 600 DPI, 8-bit color, and <=
$200 would be just fine.
The real problem is that I *don't* want to buy a scanner that isn't
supported by Free software. According to the lists at
http://www.sane-project.org/ , the current low-end offerings from Epson
and Canon are not supported by SANE yet. I can probably run USBSnoopy
on 'Doze, figure out part of the protocol on a LiDE 35 or Perfection
3490, and write a partial backend--but that's too much like work and it
takes a long time. So: Does anyone have any horror stories about the
Plustek OpticPro UT24 ? That one's marked as "complete" in SANE's
lists, and Googling for problems didn't turn up much. If anyone has
other suggestions, please post them to the newsfroup. TIA,
I'm finally going to buy a scanner, and would like some opinions on what
might work. My requirements are modest; 600 DPI, 8-bit color, and <=
$200 would be just fine.
The real problem is that I *don't* want to buy a scanner that isn't
supported by Free software. According to the lists at
http://www.sane-project.org/ , the current low-end offerings from Epson
and Canon are not supported by SANE yet. I can probably run USBSnoopy
on 'Doze, figure out part of the protocol on a LiDE 35 or Perfection
3490, and write a partial backend--but that's too much like work and it
takes a long time. So: Does anyone have any horror stories about the
Plustek OpticPro UT24 ? That one's marked as "complete" in SANE's
lists, and Googling for problems didn't turn up much. If anyone has
other suggestions, please post them to the newsfroup. TIA,