


Worse, the documentation on persuading a scanner to work is fragmented, sometimes out of date, often less than helpful and the Operating System interfaces have been in (and remain) in a state of constant change. Although there is a long list of compatible devices on the SANE website, they seem entirely to be older models that are no longer sold new.

One of the problems in using flatbed (as opposed to all-in-one) scanners in Unix/Linux is that few if any scanners that one can buy off the shelf at any moment in time actually work with Unix without tinkering.
