Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

[Stephen Ryan]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:11 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Drew Van Zandt
> <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>         For photos I have an Epson Perfection model ????  with a 35mm
>         film feeder.  I use the Windows software, though, since it has
>         fanciness and I rarely need to use it anymore.
>         
>                 
>                 
>                 On a related note, anyone know an ADF scanner that can
>                 feed photos?
>                 The stick feeders can do it but the quality is very
>                 poor.  Most other feeders jam on a 4x6 size. 
>                 
> 
> Are there any ADF for 4x6 photos?  There are lots of  film scanners,
> but they don't work on a 4x6 printed photo. 

I've fed lots of 4x6 photos through my ScanSnap S510 and gotten
reasonable results out of it.  They're actually arguably better than the
results of scanning 8.5x11" paper, as there's less skew visible in the
results.  The only thing that didn't work well was scanning photos that
turned out to be "professional" prints, which have a brilliant green
line about 2/3 of the way across, possibly as a way of marking them so
they can't be copied.  

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Stephen Ryan
Dartware, LLC