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dale77

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From: Down under

Registered: 2007-02-10

Posts: 102

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Scanner recommendation for Arch?

Hello all,

I'd like to do some basic pic scanning and OCR of a doc or two. Anyone had any good sucess under Arch with any of the current brood of scanners?

The Canon Pixma range of multi-function thingimmies seems to perform well, but what about for Linux?

Any experience out there with scanning? What software do you use?

Thanks!

Dale

qlus

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From: Tychy, Poland

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 74

Re: Scanner recommendation for Arch?

Check this.
For scanning I use Gimp, for OCR some old ReadIRIS 7 under wine.

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Scanner recommendation for Arch?

Check this

Agree, check link. I use a hp scanjet 4300C and it works great, had it for a few years now. Had one problem with it jamming half way through a scan and that was with windows. No such problem since I dumped MS for linux.

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davin

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-05-01

Posts: 25

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Re: Scanner recommendation for Arch?

HP scanners are best they detected automatically and no driver error.

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George_K

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From: Russie, Saint-Pétersbourg

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 75

Re: Scanner recommendation for Arch?

Any scanner with 'complete' support on that page.
I would recommend Canon LiDE 60 because I use it, it is not out of stock and is cheaper then HP.