i personally have not used one, and they are quite expensive, but i understand that the Epson Perfection v700 or v750 are quite fast, and are reported to work with SANE.
allan On 2/5/08, Alex Bernier <alex.bernier at free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if it is the right place for this question... > I'm blind and I want a very fast scanner supported by SANE, mainly to scan > books (it should be very fast for 300-DPI black and white scanning). > It's not easy to find information about performances of scanners. On the Epson > website, I found the GT2500 which can scan 27 PPM using an ADF. But I don't > want to use the ADF... Because I want to scan books, it's more useful for > me to know how fast the scanner is when using the "flatbed" mode. If someone > has an Epson GT2500, I would really apreciate if he/she can give me some > information about the scanning speed. > Or if someone knows about an other very fast scanner, suggestions would be > apreciated. > > For the moment, I own an Epson Perfection 1640SU. It scans a page in 17 > seconds, but it is old and I think there is better models now... > > Regards, > > Alex Bernier > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"