Scanners?

[thomas fisher]

On Monday 24 December 2007 23:14:32 Michael wrote:

> I need some direction on buying a flatbed scanner that will
> work with Ubuntu 7.10.  Can anyone point me to  a scanner that is known
> to work.  
> Mike

Mike:
  Most of the scanners that I have used have worked.The only USB scanner 
device that I have connected was a HP combo printer/scanner/copier. I have 
used parrallel port and scsi. Specialty scanning devices such as high 
resolution camera backs, film scanners will require more research. 


Here is the main Linux scanner site.
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl

Here is Linux USB
http://www.linux-usb.org/

Here is some Linux USB chatter.
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/c122.html

Here is a start for Linux and scsi
http://www.scsi-planet.com/scsi-linux/

Hope this helps.
Tom