USB scanners and linux

[Holmes, Steve]

My 486 obviously, doesn't have USB, but I wasn't aware scanners could be
used with Linux.  I have an HP5200 (I think) and am considering hooking it
up to the parallel port if there are some decent OCR products I could use;
sounds like an interesting idea.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Ward [mailto:tward at bright.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:34 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: USB scanners and linux


Basically, with the scanners you just compile a 2.2.18 Kernel for your Linux
distro, and while making the config file select USB support, and answer yes
to the USB scanner support.
Most scanners will work with the generic driver. Read the documentation that
comes with the 2.218 Kernel to get a complete list of scanners supported.
As far as I can tell Red Hat seams to find my Umax Astra just fine, but I
haven't tested it with some scanner packages yet.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: <blinux-newbie at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: USB scanners and linux


> Hi all:
>
> For complex financial reasons, we need to buy something now and we
> thought it should be a scanner.  We would like to go USB since SCSI is
> expensive and parallel is sooo slow.  Anyway, I need to know if there are
> any issues with using USB scanners under 2.2.18.  Are there drivers for
> each scanner or is there like some kind of standard interface?  Also, I
> have a PC without onboard USB support.  I believe that I can get a card
> for USB without too much expense to the management. But does this create
> problems for the USB support under linux?
>
> Any comments would be helpful. This is a matter of some urgency.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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