<div dir="ltr">I think I have Jim's old flatbed, still running ok last I checked on an Emachines box loaded with Puppy Linux and a cgi-bin web interface I cobbled together one weekend afternoon. Yep, SANE is the way to go.<div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><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><span class=""><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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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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