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

I second the phone idea. While I do have access to a scanner at work, and one at home, increasingly I find myself just using my Android phone and the Google docs app to scan documents as PDFs into my Google drive. It's a rare situation when I have to turn on the scanner at home. But of course, it does entrust the document to the big G.

Incidentally, I was at a wedding in California over the weekend where they had hired Google buses to transport the guests. Apparently, Google used to hire buses to transport their employees from around the San Francisco Bay Area to Mountain View / Sunnyvale, but then decided to just start their own bus company, which now has 400 buses, which in turn they rent out to other companies on weekdays, and to the public on weekends. The wifi was not on, but they had the password posted around the bus: d0ntb33vil.

Regards

– Bhaskar

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:03 AM jeff via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

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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