[sane-devel] Portable Scanners

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday 06 September 2009, Mike B. wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I consider buying a portable scanner, such as the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 or
> Pentax DSmobile 600. I would mainly use it for scanning documents (text).
>
> Would appreciate feedback from users how well these and other portable
> scanners perform under SANE, as well as any other helpful tips you may have
> in choosing and using a portable scanner.
>
> Cheers and thanks,
>
> Mike.

The DSmobile 600 does NOT work with Linux, I know, I have one. They still 
advertise Linux compatibility but the old driver does not work with the new 
scanner (and they don't make it available anyway).

I got it to work from an emulated Windows (or a Mac).

Thierry