When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or simply the bundled software. Obviously, the bundled software does a Linux user little good.
The HP has color correction, snap-to colors for areas of what should be solid color, recognizes black and white line art and vectorizes it for smooth scaling, etc. This _sounds_ all like software features to me, and I'm wondering if the hardware itself is much different. ...RickM...