[nfbcs] flatbed scanner recommendation

[John G Heim]

I asked about scanners on the tech talk list here at the UW  and 
somebody offered to just give me a CanoScan LiDE20. He says it doesn't 
have drivers for Win7. According to the sane web site, the CanoScan 
LiDE20      is completely supported in linux. So problem solved, I guess

That's how I got my last scanner too. Someone just gave me a scanner 
because it didn't have drivers for XP. That was about 15 years ago. The 
scanner finally broke down but it's still supported in linux.


On 01/04/2016 01:44 PM, Larry Wayland via nfbcs wrote:
> The Cano scanners are very good and very low cost.   They will work well for
> what you want to do.
>
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> Anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner for use with OCR?  I
> don't do a whole lot of scanning. Sometimes I scan my mail. Sometimes I scan
> in books. I probably don't need a top of the line system. But I don't know
> if I should be looking in the $200 or the $400 or the $800 price range.
>
> I also don't even have a Windows machine. I use linux with the tesseract OCR
> engine. So the software that comes with the scanner will probably be of no
> use to me.
> Feel free to recommend a scanner even if you don't know if it's linux
> compatible. I'll check that.
>
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