<html><head></head><body><div>Todor,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm 99% certain that all the flatbed scanners at MicroCenter will work perfectly with SANE. That should be the backend for all Linux scanner software. As much as HP irritates me, I would not hesitate to buy the $300 one with the sheet feeder if I were in the market. I have a 10+ year old Epson that is USB v.1.1 only but it works perfectly still.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 12:58 -0600, Todor Fassl wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>My flatbed scanner died recently. I'm blind and I need a flatbed scanner
to OCR my mail and books and stuff. Anybody have a recommendation for a
linux compatible flatbed scanner for use with tesseract? I don't evn
know how much I should expect to pay. I see scanners out there for $200
and others for $1200.
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James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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