Comments on: Using an Epson Perfection V30 scanner in Linux

By: Jim Neff

Jim Neff — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:05:44 +0000

Thanks, I myself am looking for a “reasonably priced scanner” and found your post. I have an old Visioneer 8100 but doesn’t look like it works under Linux. I’m enjoying Ubuntu 10.04 and will order the V30 from newegg.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:32:34 +0000

The scanner itself is reasonably fast. The slow part is flipping the pages of the book, lining it up, taking a preview, setting the clip borders, scanning at full resolution, piping the output into the OCR software, and correcting the OCR errors.

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:30:46 +0000

Nice article. Reassuring to known that the Epson V30 will work with ubuntu. But, how fast will it scan? If you’re scanning whole books…?

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:23:33 +0000

There is a proprietary solution to a large number of scanners to work on linux.
It’s VueScan, from Hamrick Software.

http://www.hamrick.com