[vox-tech] Scanners

[Rod Roark]

Scanners are a huge pain.  I've had a parallel-port Plustek 9636T
for a few years, it's what I could get at the time that was supposed
to be Linux-compatible at a reasonable price.  Had to debug the
driver myself to get it working reliably, though it was kinda fun
to get a patch accepted by the SANE team.

-- Rod

On Saturday 02 July 2005 12:51 pm, Richard Harke wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a scanner to scan in a bunch of documents.
> First shot was hook up my wifes scanner but it is not supported.
> So I got into reading the lists of supported scanners and hunting
> for them on the internet. The ones I can find for sale don't seem
> to be listed or are listed as not supported by SANE.
> Then I found a site that suggested getting an Epson, saying that they
> do support Linux. I went to their web page and got a list of models
> and then downloaded the tar ball. But when I tried to build it, I got
> tons of errors. They also supply an RPM but I wonder if I can use it.
> I'm running Debian and have a 2.6 kernel. They list Redhat and SuSE
> as the distros supported.
> 
> Does anyone on this list have any suggestions?