[Leaplist] standalone scanners

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:02:55 pm Kevin Korb wrote:
> I would look on eBay and find the cheapest one that is supported by SANE.
> The one I have is so old it is SCSI and the last supported OS was Win95
> (it actually didn't work in Win98) but it works just fine with xsane under
> Linux.  I have never seen a reason to upgrade and I think I paid $50 for
> it back in 95-96.
>
> Don't pay much attention to DPI.  Unless you are doing something special
> you will probably never go above 150 DPI.  An 8.5x11" scan at 150 DPI comes
> out to 1650x1275 or about 6MB.  If you do go above 150 DPI (for maybe
> scanning a photo) you will probably only go to 300 DPI.

Interesting.  The server is in a poor physical place logistically to likely 
have a scanner attached to it.  I might have to attempt to rectify that.  We'd 
only use it rarely anyway.  I'd have to script up something to put the scans 
on a file server, though.  Actually, no one would know how to even start the 
scanning process.

Probably need one I can hang off a Windows box somehow.  Google Picasa seems to 
support taking to scanners somehow.

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