Re: [orca-list] Can someone recommend a good scanner for books that works under Linux, please?

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

Oh, I think almost everything works. I am not doubting that you happened 
to come across some scanner that didn't have a driver. But I have never 
bought a scanner because I keep getting them fromWindows users who lost 
support for their scanner when they upgraded Windows. Right now I am 
using a Canon CanoScan N670U/N676U/LiDE20 flatbed scanner. That's what 
"scanimage --list" says anyway. But somebody just gave it to me because 
they had upgraded from Win XP to Win 7 and it was no longer supported.

I got my previous scanner the same way. I was just walking down the 
street on Christmas eve with my wife and dog. We passed this tiny church 
and somebody waved us over. They were giving away old computer 
equipment. I took the flat bed scanner and used it for years.

My understanding is that a new scanner is only $35 to $40 these days. It 
might not even be worth the effort to try to find a used one. For OCR of 
normal text, you don't need a great scanner. Higher resolution in the 
scan actually leads to worse results because more artifacts are 
introduced. I scanned in the entire AD&D 5E players handbook and I found 
that 300 dots per inch gave the best results. I think that if you are 
going to scan books, just about any old scanner will do.

I got great results from that free Cannon scanner and tesseract OCR.




On 1/10/19 8:48 AM, Mallard wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm trying to replace my Optik Book 3600 with a good scanner for books 
> that sorks under Linux.
>
> Unfortunately, Plustek never released a driver for their scanners. 
> Someone made a front-end for my very scanner a few years ago, as a 
> university project, but I was never able to get it to work.
>
> I need a scanner for books though, not just any flat scanner.
>
> If any of you have any suggestions/recommendations, I'd be very grateful.
>
> This scanner thing is one of the reasons I could never work seriously 
> with Linux. Another one is the fact that I can't download and read 
> ebooks with Adobe Digital Editions drm... Or Kindle books on a pc.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ciao,
> Ollie
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