USB scanner + embedded Linux box = network scanner?

[Ted Roche]

Ben Scott wrote:
>   You can get a decent USB-attached scanner for small money these
> days.  But they all require cumbersome, buggy MS Windows software that
> tends to suck (even by the standard of MS Windows software).  To get a
> network-attached scanner that doesn't suck, you need to spend big
> bucks (often kilobucks).
> 
Disagree with your conclusion here, though the project does sound cool.
I'm very interested in the low-power SOHO computer field. I think they
could fill a lot of niches.

I have an HP OfficeJet (a d145, couple of version/model years old) with
the extra HP JetDirect I/O card to connect it directly to the ethernet.
Using this, SANE and the -great- HPLIP [1] project files, I can scan
directly from Linux. Not terribly cheap, but it's a decent
scanner/fax/color printer/duplexer/photo card reader. The JetDirect was
$100 extra, iirc.

[1] HP Linux Imaging and printing, http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com