Hi, Avision has special book scanners, that have a "zero edge / book edge" feature, which mean one side of the scanner is specially formed to press a book on:
http://www.proscan.com.au/avision/FB6080E.htm and are supported by my Avision backend. Yours, Ren? On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:50:16 m. allan noah wrote: > 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" > -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Susanne Klaus, Ren? Rebe Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B USt-IdNr.: DE251602478 http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name