Hi Alex, Alex ARNAUD writes:
> Hello all, > > I'm trying to help a visual-impaired person that wants to switch to > GNU/Linux. > > He has a Plustek Opticbook 3600 and I found on this page: > https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/libsane/supported.html that the > support of this device is noted as basic but honestly I don't understand > what this mean. The meaning of "basic" and other status classifiers are explained in the Legend at the bottom of the page. There's a link near the top, BTW. > What does basic support for such device mean ? basic means it works at least in the most important modes but quality is not perfect. > Is the page I've found correct to check if an hardware is compatible > with Sane? The page is not wrong but a bit out-of-date. Have a look at https://sane-project.org/sane-backends.html for the latest information. FWIW, the support status of the scanner you mentioned has *not* changed. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org