Re: tlug: Q: Scanner and Linux

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Kei Furuuchi <kfur@example.com> wrote,

> Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes:
>  > Does
>  > anybody have experience with using scanners from Linux and
>  > in particular using SANE's xscanimage from within GIMP to do
>  > the scans?
> 
> I use Canon CanoScan 300 now under Sane and Gimp. I bought the flatbed 
> scanner two years simply because they sell software and cable for Win and Mac
> separately. Even it has two separate connectors of anphenol and
> d-sub. So it needs two different cables to daisy-chain.
> And software can be downloaded from their web. xscanimage
> is standalone program that also can be plug-in for gimp. And OCR
> program I use under Linux demands tif format, so I need to use it under
> Gimp. Since xscanimage has limited image file format.
> Despite alpha state of canon driver, so far it works fine and
> Canon never release scsi manual as far as I know, I wonder how they do
> it. It works even under network so I don't have to swap around scsi
> controller. 

Thank you very much for this information.  I was actually
also considering the CanoScan, but was worried about the
alpha state of the driver.  What kind of software do they
provide on the Web?

Thanks,

Manuel
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