Daniel Dalton wrote:
If I was to buy a new scanner what model is the easiest to set up and
the best supported?
What one would you recommend?
Hi,
Pretty much any scanner should work nowadays. You want one that's TWAIN
compatible. That includes most Epson, Cannon, HP, etc. You probably want
a USB scanner. The only thing to watch is that some require their own
Windows drivers which of course won't work in Linux. This seems true of
HP but I had this with an Epson also. I don't yet do scanning in Linux
so I can't really give specific help besides that, but if in doubt, look
for something like "best scanner" or "supported scanner models" at
http://www.google.com/linux
If you get one to work, I would be interested in your results. I am
interested in trying to scan documents in Linux and have found the OCR
thread interesting. I would also be interested in which engine produces
the best text quality. I know from trying different ones under Windows
that results can drastically vary depending on many factors.
You asked about page images with text. First, be aware that there are at
least 4 different types of .tif images. One is compressed, one is for
faxes, one is for multiple pages and one is the standard, old fashioned,
single page. You want the later. You'll know that it's right because it
will only support one page per document and the files will be very big,
about 1 MB per file. I've had bad luck with the other .tif variations.
Also, there are many sources of page images not mentioned. Just a few
are these:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ now offers .jpg page images but you have to do
some hunting
http://www.archive.org/ look for text, American Libraries, all should be
high quality images
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ look at serials, links to many
magazines with page images but sites aren't very accessible
http://www.loc.gov/ and http://memories.loc.gov/ very comprehensive and
will require searching, has many "Base Ball" guides, images are in .jpg
I hope this is helpful to you. Have a good weekend.
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