Am 07. May, 2025 schwätzte AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss so:
moin moin,
All,
I've switched my "daily driver" computer to Linux (Kubuntu 24.04) and have been
able to get almost everything working since my transition from Win 10 a few weeks ago.
However, I cannot get my old Plustek scanner to work at all. Since it's so old, I'm just
going to get a new one.
I'm looking for a simple single page USB scanner (just like my old Plustek).
What brand/model can someone recommend that they have found to work well under
Linux? Also, what scanning utility is recommended? I'm looking for a GUI
application. I don't scan a lot of documents, but occasionally (like now) I'm
given some hard copies of important documents and I have to scan them into PDF
format.
I've been using xsane for scanning for many years. I only connect via USB.
Brother has been supporting their printers and scanners on Linux for
years. When I first bought mine the printer worked out of the box. At the
time it required a proprietary driver for the scanner, but I didn't need
to scan, so didn't install the driver. After upgrading to debian 12 xsane
could recognize and use the scanner.
I switched to Brother after tiring of HP messing with their printer
inks. HP scanners probably still work well.
For space reasons I've stuck with printer/scanner combos, though I only
print things a couple times a year. Moving to Brother laser printer from
HP inkjet has been the best thing for that.
ciao,
der.hans
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