Up until the later versions of Mint 18 and now Mint 19 there wasn't a problem, just happens that Cannon stopped support for that version and from then on it went down hill. I agree with phd21 in that Mint does quite well and my scanner does work with most of the software, in a fashion. This was just a general rant about how Sane seems to have been forgotten about. Nevertheless, I want the cleanest solution possible, and will go without rather than cut corners. I will have no truck with a proprietary file format, and besides, JPEG is garbage anyhow.ĭon't get me wrong: if I could know specifically what hardware to buy and that hardware could be had for a reasonable price, I would get that instead because it's really cumbersome to do it the other way.

For example, scanning text and then performing OCR on the images after the fact.Īt this point, where graphic image files are concerned, I only use one of two formats: PNG and SVG. It is insane how much they are selling for today, and that coupled with lack of a clear-cut answer to which hardware I should buy has halted any purchasing decision on my part.Ī fallback option, I think, could be to get a relatively inexpensive all-in-one unit and use it exclusively in a stand-alone configuration, having it scan at the highest resolution possible to a flash drive, then taking the resultant image files and processing them separately. I had a few, many years ago, back when I was still professionally active in the print (i.e. I have thought about getting another flatbed scanner myself.

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