Easy to use Linux scanner

[Paul Smith]

On Jan 12, 2008 9:19 PM, Arch Willingham <arch at tuparks.com> wrote:
> Never tried that one (I remember seeing it when I first figured out about scanners and Linux but can't remember why I didn't). What made you like it?
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 7:37 PM, Arch Willingham <arch at tuparks.com> wrote:
> > That should have said a "Fujitsu ScanSnap S500"
> >
> > I have gotten a scanner to work with Linux. I used Xsane and it worked fine for me. The kicker is that it was a pain in the but# for an end user to use (the software was not intuitive at all for a typical dip wad). One of our other users has a Windows based scanner (Fujitsu ScanSnap S300) that all you do is walk up, drop the paper in and push a button. The paper shoots through and the document gets scanned. They don't have to do anything except press a button (kind of like a copier).
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience with a scanner like this with Linux?
>
> I prefer gscan2pdf instead of xsane.

Easy use, integrates unpaper (nice for scanning books and documents)
and produces pdf output nicely.

Paul