flatbed scanner?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:49 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week
> correlating the lists of scanners actually available for
> purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane
> web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of
> production :-).
> 
> Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good
> linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such,
> not photo or negative scanning).
> 
> The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first
> painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't
> show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say
> it had blown it :-). Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now
> (60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane.

I've had good results with an HP office scanner. Sorry I don't remember
the model since I now use a multifunction (also HP). If you download the
hplip package it has a list of supported models in the documentation.

poc