[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

[Kjell André Lende]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:34:46 +0200
Gerard Klaver <gerard at gkall.hobby.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:18 +0200, Kjell André Lende wrote:
> > 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

Interesting. Have you, or anyone else here, used that scanner? Do
scanned documents look OK without calibration? I guess I can crop the
images afterwards -- so I could live with limited area-selection.

--
Regards,
Kjell André Lende