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Re: Scanner that works well with linux?

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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. 


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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
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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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