Recommendation for a scanner?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 4:51 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> 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.
>
I've had a couple of HP All-in-One's that do almost all of what you
want.  For duplex in the ADF, it's been my experience that the
shortfall here is in the scanning software - neither xsane nor the
Simple Scan that comes with Ubuntu will handle that well.

However, to get duplex scanning, what I do is scan all the sheets one
sided, flip the sheets and scan the other side.  If flipped correctly
(top of the page stays in the same direction, no reshuffling), Simple
Scan can interleave the documents properly with a simple reorder
function and I get a properly duplexed scan.

I recommend HPs for two reasons - one is that HP is at its roots a
printer manufacturer and they do it well, the other is that HP had the
earliest support for Linux that I know of and it's more robust and
extensive than any others I've used.  Canons were the worst, although
they make excellent scanners, and brother has been hit and miss for
me, but I wouldn't give up my Brother laser printer for anything else
- yet.

All this is just MNSHO.  Hope it helps, and take it for what it's worth to you.

Mark Richter, Senior MoTS
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