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

[jeff via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I've used my phone (droid). There are a ton of apps available.
Haven't done OCR but I hear it's pretty good.
Worth a shot and costs you nothing.



On 8/23/19 9:42 AM, 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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