Linux Friendly Scanner

[der.hans]

Am 09. Dec, 2024 schwätzte z via PLUG-discuss so:

> I think most HP and Brother brand devices have pretty good support built

Brother seems to be working better and better with Linux. I have a Brother
all-in-one laser. The printer worked out of the box, but the scanner did
not. Not needing to futz with ink on the rare ocassions when I need to
print has been a fantastic experience over HP printers.

I've seen many reports that Brother printers work great for us.

The scanner required a proprietary package. I setup a boot drive for a
laptop on the occasion I needed to scan. At some point debian stopped
needing the extra package and now just works for scanning.

HP scanners and printers have worked great for years, but HP's ink
shenanigans got me to abandon them.

HP provide code for the hplip package, which is nice if you can ignore all
their printer debacles.

> into the kernel. But possibly you could look up your device and see if
> they package a proprietary driver for linux. I think you may have to
> add the "printer" while declaring a particular driver. Cups has a CLI
> command to do this if it's not clear on how to with the GUI. The arch
> linux wiki page for cups has a lot of assistance for troubleshooting
> with printers/scanners.
>
>
> Also I wrote a pretty cool bash script as a CLI scanning wizard that supports OCR and declaring a particular DPI for the generated images.
>
> https://github.com/tzcrawford/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/in_terminal/scan-wizard.sh

Cool, looks useful.

ciao,

der.hans

> You would have to install tesseract OCR and the english dictionary to get it to work.
>
> Dec 9, 2024 13:50:04 Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>:
>
>> Here's the definitive Linux scanner checklist.  Look at the "Supported devices" link.
>> http://sane-project.org/
>>
>> I use HP OfficeJet and HP Envy all-in-ones, and the scanners work fine once the printer is installed.  Not a recommendation, but I don't want to have a printer and a separate scanner for space and clutter reasons.  I hate HP and their printers however, and will switch to another brand next time.
>>
>> I use the simple-scan software (Gnome Document Scanner).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>>> Message: 13
>>> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:31:25 +0000
>>> From: AZ Pete <blogs at sonoranzen.com>
>>> Subject: Linux Friendly Scanner
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of finally being able to leave Windows for good and move entirely to Linux. One of the remaining "sticking" points is that my single feed page scanner is not recognized in Linux at all. It's an old Plustek MobileOffice S400 single page scanner (color).
>>>
>>> I don't need a fancy multi-page, flat-bed printer/scanner - just a single feed USB scanner for the occasional papers I need to scan into a PDF or JPG document.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations for a similar, single-page scanner that works well on Linux (i.e. Ubuntu/Mint/Debian)?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Peter
>>
>

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