[sane-devel] Flatbed scanner that can scan to the edge?

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:22:34 Felix E. Klee wrote:
> > > If I do not find such a scanner, I may have to build a stencil that
> > > I can put on my current scanner.  Actually, this should not be too
> > > hard.  I'm annoyed however, that this step is necessary.  Why didn't
> > > Epson make the visible glass plate simply a bit smaller?
> > 
> > Maybe some company has a patent on "zero edge" scanners?
> 
> I doubt that what I need is patented.  I think you still misunderstand
> me.  With the Epson 3490, the problem that I mentioned is not limited to
> scanning books.  It affects all kinds of documents.  Already scanning an
> A4 sized page is a pain: One has to position it freely in the middle of
> the glass plate.  The problem is that the scanner isn't capable to scan
> the entire area of the visible glass plate: it cannot scan to the edge
> of the plate.  This is weird, but it's the truth - I'm not the first
> person to encounter this problem.  If there would be a photo copier that

Ah ok, sorry. I thought you wanted the scan are end device border (like
on this Avision book scanners :-).

As all the non-home Avision (HP et al.) scanner I have here scan the entire
glas(/plastic) area :-)

> had this problem, then close to nobody would buy it.  But with scanners
> people seem to be less picky, as long as they're "good" at scanning
> photos.

Indeed.

Yours,

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