Author: Dave Walker Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] sheet fed scanners
Alan Bell wrote: > I am getting a bit fed up of my cheap and nasty flatbed USB scanner and
> I wanted a sheetfed one. It seems these are scary expensive, however an
> 'all-in-one' printer/scanner/fax/floor cleaner thing is much more
> affordable. Basic requirement is scanning multiple sheets of A4 paper
> into SANE or something. In fact something that just generated PDF files
> as output would be fine. It needs to work with Linux but doesn't have to
> be plug and play on Ubuntu, I don't care how hard it is to set up.
> Budget is about £150 but less is good. Any recomendations?
>
> Alan
>
> Hi Alan,
I personally quite like the Brother range. The way they do things on
Linux (over IP) is quite interesting. You run their daemon, which
registers the scanner with the computer/server. When you press the scan
button (on the hardware), it sends a ping to the computer/server - which
then fires a configurable bash script, firing "scanimage"+parameters for
each selectable event (Scan to email / scan to image / scan to pdf).
This means that the autofeed can be setup to work exactly how you want
it, and could even upload to a remote server or anything else you can
think of doing!
Obviously you can use it directly with a SANE frontend, but I find it
handy to use the hardware button - connected to a server.
I tend to use it in LAN mode, however they also support wifi, but it's a
PITA to type in a decent length key. I should also mention, that their
after-sales *Linux* support is pretty good, even if not native english.
