[geeks] Scanner recommendations?

[Mike Hebel]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:56:01 -0600, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:42:24AM +0000, Michael-John Turner wrote:
>> My requirements:
>> - Good quality scanning of documents and photos
>> - Supported by OS X (Linux support a bonus)
>> - Reasonable scanning speed (whatever that may mean!)
>> - Reasonable price (say in the region of GBP 100/$200 at most)
>> Anyone got any recommendations? Those of you who've scanned, eg, old
> Byte
>> and Popular Mechanics articles, what software and hardare did you use?
> 
> For software there is only one choice:  VueScan
> 
> http://www.hamrick.com/

I will second the recommendation for VueScan.  And I will also recommend
the Canon LiDE scanner.  I have an LiDE 20 that I got for a song off of
Bill and it just rocks.  LED based so no bulb to go out.  About my only
complaint is that it's not legal-sized but that isn't a big thing for me.

Mike
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