I’m looking for a good document scanner for home and occasional office use. I need to scan things like receipts, forms, invoices, and other important documents, so I’d like something that produces clear scans without being too complicated to use.
I’ve been looking at a few different options, but I’m having trouble deciding which one would be the best choice. I’d prefer something reliable, reasonably fast, and easy to set up.
For those who have used document scanners, what would you recommend as the best document scanner right now? Are there any particular models I should consider?
Most standalone scanners should work just out of the box under Linux.
I have two in use one ancient Epson twain USB scanner still working totally fine, but slow and a new Canon one standard flatbed document scanner.
Canon CanoScan LiDE .. has buttons but i do basically never use these.. for all standard scanning i do use simple-scan .. other tools will work the same only omit installing these old monster apps like xsane .. to complex interfaces ..
I have a Brother DCP-9010cdw multi-function printer/scanner and the printer function works out of the box on EOS with nearly zero configuration. The scanner function required installing an appropriate brscan version from the AUR. For software, I tried skanpage, but it had a weird compatibility issue with the scan area of my device. I’ve since switched to simple-scan and it works flawlessly.
If you’re needing OCR, you might also try gimagereader-qt or gImagereader-gtk (depending on your desktop environment). It’s a front-end for Tesseract OCR.
