Thank you. Please keep the information coming as you find out more as I am sure the demand will only go up for scanners for our project. ;-)
On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:44 am, m. allan noah wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Wolfram Heider wrote: > > Guiseppe, > > > > Nancy meanwhile chose a Brother MFC 5440 CN (multi-functional device - > > cheap but.... hmhm) and seems to be happy with it. > > > > Since ADF-scanners are of growing importance in daily work (not only in > > huge digitalization-projects as that of google) and there probably is a > > broader interest for it here is a short survey of the results of the > > quick inquiry I made to be able to give her some advice - only pure ADFs > > no MFDs and only models currently available in store: > > > > as you said, Fujitsu is a good address for scanners of this type. There > > are really expensive models but also two ones in the affordable region: > > the Fujitsu 5110C and the 4120C (pricing from 600 to 1000 Dollars). > > Sane-support is basic and as far I can see the maintainer of the backend > > Allan Noah is working on further improvement. > > the 4120C2 is better at recovering from usb errors than the 4120C, which > has been discontinued. i also find the newer unit to be slightly faster in > my app (20 ppm vs 19). all lower-end fujitsus have a 'fax machine' type > top-feed adf. this does seem to have more jams than the tray-feed style. > the 5110C has rubber rollers in places that the 4120c has plastic, > which seems to help a little. > > i have been looking at the panasonic KV-S2026C lately. i like the paper > path better than the fujitsus, but sane support seems minimal for more > advanced features. similar price to the 4120C2. have not actually tried it > yet. > > allan > > > Then: Avision. The AV 600U, AV 610 and the AV 220 (pricing from 400 to > > 700 dollars) are rated good or even complete in sane-support. > > > > Finally one may consider an Epson 3170 with an > > additional offered 30-sheet-ADF-unit (total price 500 dollars) - > > supported by iscan. > > > > Maybe there are some more but surely not very much. > > > > Hope this may of any help for those looking out for ADFs running under > > sane. > > > > Greetings > > Wolfram Heider > > > > Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 14:46 schrieb Giuseppe Sacco: > >> Hi Nancy, > >> I think your question already appeared on this list so you might have a > >> look at the list archives. > >> > >> Il giorno sab, 13/08/2005 alle 09.44 -0400, Nancy Anthracite ha scritto: > >> [...] > >> > >>> All this leads up to my question. We have some volunteers working on > >>> developing the software to do that scanning now, and we are looking for > >>> a cross platform solution. We feel that using SANE is the logical > >>> choice, but we need some help choosing a scanner or group go scanners > >>> that can be used from both Windows and Linux and maybe even eventually > >>> with OS X as seamlessly as possible using SANE. We would like to > >>> choose scanners that have sheet feeders, and ideally, a range of > >>> scanners from high speed business to very small business type for no > >>> more than a $200. Having scanners that are easy to get running properly > >>> is much more important than having a wide range of choices. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> Anyway I had very bad experiences using SANE on Windows with cheep > >> scanners, mainly because these scanners require the libusb library. This > >> library is working very well on linux but is absolutely not stable (at > >> least for uwing it with SANE) on Windows. > >> > >> About scanner with ADF support, you might want to try the fujitsu (they > >> have both USB and SCSI interface) and they are well supported by SANE, > >> but they are expensive compared to what you asked. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Giuseppe > > -- > "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 -- Nancy Anthracite
