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

Mark,

If you find something please let me know. When I used to travel a lot those scanners were invalueable and mine was stolen as well. Daily expense reports and being on the road for a month at a time shows that phone cameras and other alternatives just don't cut it (except Expensify which was amazing when that was an option).

A quick Google search found this post, so it might be best to compare options you find that have "sane" support. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/linux-friendly-portable-document-scanner-4175636878/

-Will

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 13:42 Rachel plays Linux via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

I have a business card scanner that also works on receipts. I don't remember the brand but it's about 5" by 1" by 2" and easily drops stuff into xsane.

Obviously there's no sheet feeder, but receipts are rarely uniform enough for that.

Rache

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 12:09 PM Mark Dominus via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I've used my phone (droid). There are a ton of apps available.

there are scanner apps for iOS and Android which can do this. Well, not the feed part, of course, but the scanning.

Thanks guys, but this is not what I am asking for. I am well aware that my phone has a camera in it.

As I said, I want a sheet-fed desk scanner that can make the scanned images appear in my Linux laptop.

For example, the scanner might have a USB port, and when I plug it into my laptop it looks like a USB camera device or a USB mass storage device.

Or the scanner could connect to the local wifi network and advertise a web server that will serve the scanned images to my laptop.

Or the scanner could contact a CUPS server on my laptop and "print" the files and CUPS would save them to the filesystem.

I don't mind a little hackiness in the software side of things, but I want a scanner. To produce scanned images.
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