On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > PLUG, > > I'm looking for a document scanner to make digital copies of cabinets > and cabinets full of old invoices. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a > good piece of hardware for this. Of course, it would be best if it > worked with Linux, but we are *not* holding our breath.
HP. I have a 7780 all-in-one and it does very nicely under Linux. Most of the time, the drivers just fall into place. sane picks it up automatically. HP maintains the drivers as open source and they are in most disties. > > Also, it would be nice it had software that could read a printout and > use OCR and save the new document using a given path and filename (or > whatever). Unfortunately, the OCR software that comes with HP scanners only works on Windows. For OCR, see the recent discussion. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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