Comments on: 5 Scanning Tools for Linux Desktop

By: James LaBarre

James LaBarre — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:56:10 +0000

Why are you even listing TurboPrint as a *scanner* utility? It's a PRINTER utility, and their page says nothing about operating a scanner.

By: Mark DM

Mark DM — Sat, 25 May 2019 04:55:18 +0000

Unfortnately all of the solutions here use SANE, and SANE is INSANE because it has not kept up with the new breeds of eSCL/AirScan and WSD scanners. They still rely on proprietary or in some cases buggy open source. HPLIP is buggy and unreliable, but most newer HP scanners support eSCLAirscan. I think it is time we have a new scanning solution on Linux for the more modern scanners. SANE was great while it lasted but I think it is nearing end of life. Driverless scanning has arrived and has been in Windows since Windows 7 as well as OSX and iOS for a while . Linux is supposed to be the cutting edge but in scanning it is again falling behind, and it is not the first time.

By: Thomas Deitmer

Thomas Deitmer — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 05:14:14 +0000

my favourite is GScan2PDF. It is not only a Scanning Tool. I was searching a long time for a good Document Management System, but with GScan2PDF I found a very powerfull alternative. One reason is the OCR in embedded PDFs. The other reason is, you can switch from one-side-Scan to two-side-Scan with only one mouseclick. With GScan2PDF I can scan all my Documents in seconds, save the separate Documents in a structured filesystem, and can search and find them with another tool called DocFetcher. These two tools (GScan2PDF and DocFetcher) are the best solution in private Document Management.

By: jawnhenry

jawnhenry — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:38:13 +0000

I decided to take a look (do a search) on one of the non-free applications mentioned here–VueScan. It was a stunning experience.
Almost universally, the users’ comments in the review articles were highly negative and extremely critical; I have never read reviews like these.

I strongly suggest that your readers spend some time reading the reviews of VueScan before spending money on it–a frequent sentiment contained in the reviews–and then make their own decision.
There are some positive reviews of the product.

Personally, I think XSane is an outstanding choice.

Thank you for a very good informative, well-written, and enlightening article, as usual. Good work!

By: Michał Dybczak

Michał Dybczak — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:12:06 +0000

Quitelnsane was last updated 4 years ago. A lot has happened in that time and Gimp also changed so I’m not sure if that would even work. I didn’t find Quitelnsane in AUR so probaly this package is long dead.