[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

[Gerard Klaver]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:18 +0200, Kjell André Lende wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:24:31 +0200
> Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Kjell André Lende wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX
> > > DSmobile 600 scanner to work in SANE/on Linux? I would very much
> > > like to purchase it, but there is no point in that if it doesn't
> > > work on my system...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Kjell André Lende
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm sorry to say that I had no success. It works with Mac OS and from
> > a virtual WInblow machine... no luck with Linux
> > 
> > Thierry
> 
> That's too bad...
> 
> It seems that the Visigo A4 or Visigo Travelscan 464 is supported
> through SANE [1]. Have anyone any experience with this scanner? Does it
> work well, is reliable etc? Alternately, has anyone gotten the Visigo
> PS465 Simplex [2] (an updated version, I guess) to work on Linux?
> 
> I'm also interested in any other light-weight, portable and sturdy
> scanners that would work in Linux. It's for scanning documents, so a
> resolution of about 300 dpi should be plenty.
> 
> 1. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-AMBIR
> 2. http://www.ambir.com/product.asp?item=PS465-SS
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Kjell André Lende
> 

Check this  http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ for the
status of the Plustek OpticSlim M12


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