i must concur with garrick, fujitsu makes wonderfully beefy gear, except for the 4010/4110/scansnap! models, their bottom end 'toy' scanners. these seem flimsy and slow, and on the whole, cheap.
the 4120/4220 on the other hand, are absolutely wonderful, heavy, small, welbuilt machines, with excellent paper feeds, even for heavy stock. we now have quite a few of them in the field, each scanning a few hundred sheets per day, and are quite happy with the performance. they are a bit above consumer level, at ~900 bucks a pop. sane support for them is 'basic' as i have not yet had a chance to finish a re-write that fixes some duplex and other scanning issues. but for b+w or grayscale simplex scanning, you should have no problems. they have an ebay re-furb store, where they are ~550 bucks, but only a 90 day warantee. allan On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Garrick Sitongia wrote: > My vote goes to the Fujitsu 620C I just bought. Although I read that the > newer 4120 is even better, if you don't need the flatbed part. The main > thing I've been reading in the reviews is that the "home" models with the > ADF feature don't seem have a ADF that is as robust and trouble free as the > office models. An exception might be the Fujitsu ScanSnap!, but I don't know > if Sane supports it and it internally processes images to PDF's only. I > believe PDF images use JPEG encoding, because I have seen the JPEG type > distortion in them. > > Unfortunately, the Fujitsu 620C is not perfectly supported by Sane. The > sp15c backend doesn't have the brightness/contast functions plumbed to the > frontends, and so I have hacked the code to make it read a file for those > values. This sp15c code requires someone's patient attention. The Avision > backend works, but for some reason I cannot get the brightness/contrast > effect to work as satisfactory as with the sp15c backend. So I am using the > sp15c backend, with the hack. > > The major issue I have found is finding software for batch scanning. If you > have black and white papers all the same size, you are homefree. If you have > many items of considerable diversity, look for a scanner with an ADF that > will take multiple sized docs in the same feeder batch, so you don't have to > continuously adjust it by hand. I vaguely think I saw an ad for such a > thing. Also find software to do what you need for organizing your scans. I > have been writing my own perl scripts to control the scanner and do file > processing and saving. With a fast scanner, that is where the majority of my > time is spent, not scanning the documents. My issue with the 620C is > software, the hardware is excellent. > > Don't forget to check Ebay and factory refurbished outlets for whatever you > decide to get. > > Garrick > > >From: Jeff Kowalczyk <j...@yahoo.com> > >To: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > >Subject: [sane-devel] Need recomendation linux/sane compat scanner w/ fast > >2bit/greyscale ADF > >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:33:42 -0800 (PST) > > > >After a long while of doing without, I may suddenly need a good scanner for > >a > >collection of documents. I would like to find something with the following > >characteristics, if anyone has tried a model that fits the bill. > > > >a) Linux and SANE compatibility exists today. Limited feature support OK. > > > >b) ADF (or ADF option) that has good paper-feed reliability > > > >c) USB (2.0/highspeed) or Firewire interface > > > >d) I really only care about fast b/w and greyscale 300dpi scanning through > >the > >ADF, controlled by the command-line interface. Other scanning concerns are > >very > >minimal, I could use a more common scanner for that. > > > >Hoping for something in the $400-$800 range (new, including ADF), depending > >on > >how fast it is for this type of scanning. I'd also be interested in > >SANE-ready > >models with very high scanning speeds that happen to cost a bit more > >($1000-$2000). I really wish the HP 5550c had SANE compatibility, that > >model > >seems perfect otherwise. > > > >Thanks if anyone has any recommendations. > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > >http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > > >-- > >sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > >Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > All the action. All the drama. Get NCAA hoops coverage at MSN Sports by > ESPN. http://msn.espn.go.com/index.html?partnersite=espn > > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
