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Re: Scanner that works well with linux?

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On 2011-04-30, Dave {Reply Address In.Sig} <noone$$@llondel.org> wrote:
> A Watcher 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.
>
> We've got a similar situation, and using xsane and GIMP scanned in a 
> thousand slides (square aspect ratio, too) from the 1960s over the course of 
> a few evenings using an Epson 1660. I spent a while repeatedly scanning a 

The Epson 1660 is a great scanner-- very fast, and does a good job of
scanning. I tried some others before I bought the 1660 ( and have used
other people's scanners as well) and most were just so so slow to scan.
And 3200dpi is really more than enough resolution-- it makes huge files. 
(So at 3200dpi a 4x6 pictures takes up 700MB uncompressed)


> few slides to get all the defaults set up, but once we were happy with the 
> output we just scanned and saved. Unless there's wide variation in the 
> photos then you ought to be able to get acceptable results with a single 
> setting. Obviously if you want perfection on everything then it'll take you 
> a lot more time.
>
> As for printing, we're planning to send people CDs or DVDs with the digital 
> images and let them do their own printing :-)
>

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  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? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
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        Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-01 04:20 +0000
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    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
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    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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        Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Kevin the Drummer <nobody@cosgroves.us> - 2011-05-11 00:37 -0500
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