Recommendation for a scanner?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 02:39:56PM +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 12.12.2020, 13:28 +0000 schrieb Chris Green:
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:49:21PM +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'm about to buy a new scanner, but the inquiry is hard work.
> > > 
> > > It shall be a flat-bed scanner with an additional ADF. So it's both, a flab-
> > > bed and a document scanner. (Such are available!) It must/shall be able to
> > > do duplex, and it must support colors. In addition, it should have a USB
> > > connection, and (most of all) it needs to be supported by Linux. It should
> > > cost less than 400 €. And it may be second-hand.
> > > 
> > My OKI all-in-one printer does all that as well as being a colour laser
> > printer.  It cost around £160 I think so is well within your budget.
> > 
> > The model is MC342N.
> > 
> > Linux support is excellent, it comes with a pop-up utility that
> > installs itself in the task bar on my xubuntu system, but you can just
> > run it as well if you want.
> 
> That's funny. Your model isn't mentioned in the SANE devices page (
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html). Acutually, there is only one
> Oki device mentioned (in the stable as well as the development version of
> SANE).
> 
> How have you gotten it to work? Has it been recognized automatically,
> perhaps as some different device?
> 
The Linux utilities that come with it just work, I was really
impressed by the whole thing not needing any configuration really.

The utilities are written in Python and need an old[ish] library for
the GUI to work.  I had to get an old library back when I upgraded
from xubuntu 19.10 to 20.04, up until then I had done nothing, just
installed their software.

If you decide to get one I can tell you what it is that needs
installing to provide the GUI.

-- 
Chris Green