Scanner software recommendation

[Bret Busby]

On 25/05/2017, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:22 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an HP OfficeJet 5710 All-In-One attached to my Xubuntu 16.04.2
>> home desktop that I've been using for over a year now. I use xsane for
>> the scanner software, but I'm not at all happy with it.  It forgets
>> half of its settings every time I switch from ADF to flatbed (mainly
>> resolultion and paper size), and it doesn't handle multi-page scans
>> well at all.  I have to scan each page individually because, for some
>> reason, the software can't seem to figure out when one page ends and
>> another begins.
>>
>>
> You might want to check to be sure you have the best scanner driver
> software installed for your particular model. The HP web site may recommend
> a version that's NOT available in the Ubuntu repositories. Unfortunately
> that might make you have to do some juggling and adjusting every time you
> upgrade Ubuntu (as I have to do with my Brother scanner).
>
> There are several scanner packages available in the Ubuntu repositories,
> but the one I usually return to is called
>     simple-scan
>
> Simple-scan doesn't have all the features of xsane, but it handles
> multi-page document scans quite easily, as long as the scanner (and feeder)
> is already supported. If you need OCR (optical character recognition), scan
> layout management, and other post-processing, there are some other packages
> you might explore, but for basic scanning you should be able to get
> simple-scan (or even xsane) working fairly easily and reliably.
>

I also use and prefer Simple Scan, which I run on UbuntuMATE 16.04,
with a Samsung CLX-3185FW, for multipage and single page documents,
and it scans easily into multipage PDF files. I do not remember,
however, whether I use the ADF on the CLX-3185, but Simple Scan is
easy to use for multipage documents.

I suggest that, if you do not already have Simple Scan installed, you
download and install it, and try it, and, find whether it suits you.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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