[sane-devel] NeatDesk ND-1000 Scanner to work in Linux Mint

[Billy Croan]

A large part of what you're buying when you buy a scanner from a retail
store is the software. The windows software from managing scanned images.

Especially scanner brands that market themselves towards organizing data
like neatdesk.  (As opposed to scanners for artistic purposes like some
high res flat bed)

At the end of the day though scanner is a scanner.  Command line tools
scanimage and scanadf can operate the scanner all day long and produce
image files for you to convert to whatever format you want and run ocr.

I love gscan2pdf for a gui scanning program.  Naps2 is a second place. I
only use cheap scanners built into cheap allinone printers. They all do 300
DPI color these days and it's good enough for me if it has an ADF.

There was a time I longed for a Fujitsu scan snap as I thought it was the
Rolls-Royce of scanners.  Perhaps you feel that way about neatdesk.

But beware have Windows only scanners like the Fujitsu. It doesn't matter
how cool you think it is if it doesn't work on Linux.

Whatever you get, make sure they have a no strings return policy.  And make
sure you have the time to dedicate to figuring it out immediately after
purchase.

I'm a data hoarder scanning maniac myself but right now I tell you just buy
the cheapest one that has the physical features you want and hope it works
and plan on returning if it doesn't work on Linux.  Scanners today are a
crap shoot.



On Fri, May 24, 2024, 06:56 John Reynolds <john.f.reynolds at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Sane Development Team,
>
> I am somewhat of a Linux newbie. I am attempting to get a scanner to
> work with my given Linux environment. I am wondering what information
> you would need to proceed?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John Reynolds
>
>
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