Re: [PLUG] What's a small document scanner that's easy to use?

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I've never used any, but I get the impression (mostly from discussions
I've heard on podcasts) that there are scanner apps for iOS and
Android which can do this. Well, not the feed part, of course, but the
scanning.

Walt

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 09:42:49AM -0400, Mark Dominus via plug wrote:
> I want to get a small desktop document scanner for scanning things like receipts. I used to have one something like this, but it was stolen:
> 
> But I was not really happy with the Brother because it didn't connect well with Linux. It promised wi-fi connectivity, but that meant that it advertised its own access point! Not useful, because then I have to connect my computer from the Internet to talk to it! I ended up using it by scanning to its SD card, then transferring the SD card to my laptop. 
> 
> What I really want is one of these scanners where I can put sheets in and have the scans magically appear in a folder on my laptop. If I can't get that, okay, but I would like it as close to that as possible.
> 
> Does anyone have a scanner like this that they have found works well with their Linux machine?
> 
> Thanks.

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