Hi Norman,

I found a scanner Canon Canoscan Lide 20 for three Euros on a flee market. It is working fine and has a maximum resolution of 600x1200 dpi. I did some reproduction of photographs with it . After post processing with The Gimp, the reproductions were better than the originals - from the 50s and 60s. O.K I am 48 and most of the photos were taken before my birth.

I am using suse 10.3 an Xsane is no problem. Try to find a used Canon Lide scanner.

Good luck,

Bernd

gimp-user-request@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU schrieb:

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, norman wrote:

I am about to put my hand in my pocket and buy a scanner for scanning photographs into GIMP. I am having great difficulty in finding whether or not the scanners I can afford work with XSane. I go to Google, find various lists but there is no indication how up to date they are.Please help a poor old man make a good purchase. I can go up to ?100 sterling.

Norman

I recently found a used flatbed scanner for USD$15.00. It is a CanoScan LiDE 35. I see all sorts of used flatbed scanners at the thrift shops for USD$10-15. It does a good job. The 4 buttons on it don't work in Debian, but that's okay... XSane has all the buttons you'll need!

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

When I was in the used-computer shop, I simply asked the proprietor to look-up the CanoScan LiDE 35 on the Internet and he did. My $15 CanoScan LiDE 35 has the exact same form-factor as the one in the retail store selling for over $100.

If it's listed on the above sane-mfgs.html page, it should be good! -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!