Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:15:22PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
>  Hi everybody,
> 
>  What scanners are best used with FreeBSD?  I'm hoping for one that I
>  can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD.  Preferably, one that is USB.
>  I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like
>  recommendations on hardware before purchasing.

Look at the website for the SANE (acanner access now easy) project. If
it is listed there, it will probably work;

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS

I've had good experiences with Epson scanners, but mine is several years
old, and you can't buy them anymore.

If you have a specific model in mind, google for it's name in
combination with SANE, to see if it comes up on the SANE mailing
list. E.g. they've gotten the cheap Epson Perfection V10 working recently;
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-November/017993.html


Roland
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