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Re: Scanner that works well with linux?

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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 
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 :-)

-- 
Dave
da ve@llondel.org (without the space)
So many gadgets, so little time.

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