Scanning Slides under FC[123]

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Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>    I have a great number of slides slowly decaying in their storage
>area.  I guess I could put'em on a flat-bed and take my chances, but
>since I don't have a scanner now, maybe I should look into buying a
>slide-scanner.
>
>    Are these things generally like a regular scanner in terms of
>installation, or do they use funky USB mechanisms?  Anyone have
>experience with something like this?
>
>  
>
I use a Epson 3170 for that. It is reasonably priced and has a build-in 
transparency light build-in in the lid.
Works fine on linux with the Epson-Kowa scanning program.
The program is GPL except for the firmware blob that the driver uploads 
to the scanner at startup.

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