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Re: Scanner that works well with linux?

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unruh wrote:
> On 2011-04-30, A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> A Watcher wrote:
>>> I've tried several scanners with linux and have never found a 
>>> software/hardware that works easily and well.  I have used xsane and it 
>>> has so many options that it's virtually unusable, at least for me.  I 
>>> have no idea what all of those terms mean.
>>>
>>> I would like to scan a large number of old photos.  Does anyone have any 
>>> idea on how I can do this.  Right now I have a Cannon flat bed scanner 
>>> and a Lexmark Pinnacle Pro901 multifunction machine.
>>>
>>> I would like to avoid using MS Windows if possible.  I rarely use it.
>> Thanks for all of the replies.  I guess I wasn't very specific in 
>> describing my problems.  Yes, I can get usable scanned images, but I 
>> spend a lot of time with xsane settings and then fiddling with GIMP to 
>> get files of a reasonable size that I can take to the store and have 
>> printed.
>>
>> My elderly mother recently passed away and I ended up with a large 
>> number of old photos and printed documents that I would like to scan and 
>> print and or email to family members.  In order to get this done in a 
>> reasonable length of time I need to do it a lot faster than it has taken 
>> me in the past.
> 
> What quality do you want the pictures to be? Are they to paper copies or
> just email them? 
> For text, you just need about 150dpi to read the text, 300 to be really
> clear. For photos, a full screen is about 1000x700 so to fill the full
> screen with an 4x6 photo uses about 150dpi, but if you want a really
> high quality 20x15 inch photo, you want up around 2000 dpi. 
> As I said, you can set up xsane to cover the 4x6 phto, and then just
> keep putting them in and pushing scan. 
> For the name use
> photo0000.png (with the picture choice of png) and the "save" option
> rather than the "View" and it will automatically ncrement the number. 
> 
> 

Thanks.

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Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 08:36 -0700
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Douglas Mayne <none@invalid.com> - 2011-04-30 16:36 +0000
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-30 18:15 +0100
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 17:42 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-04-30 16:47 +0000
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    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 10:43 -0700
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-30 15:04 -0400
        Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-01 04:20 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2011-04-30 12:35 -0500
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 12:16 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-30 15:24 -0400
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 13:54 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:55 +0000
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 13:52 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? "Dave {Reply Address In.Sig}" <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2011-04-30 21:48 +0100
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    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-05-01 13:24 +0000
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