Hi all: Thanks to those who wrote back about USB scanners and linux. We ended up getting the HP scanjet 5200C. We could have gotten the epson perfection 610 but we weren't sure about the accessability of the windows software. The HP stuff is apparently quite speech friendly, though apparently not brilliant at OCR. As for the USB PCI card, my conclusion is that it should work, as on-board USB seems to do stuff via the PCI buss anyway. You need to use lspci to determine your USB interface type, and windows lists it as being PCI universal serial buss, so I'm pretty confident this should work. Now looking forward ~to road-testing sOCRates. Geoff.
