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Rich Shepard | 1 Oct 2009 17:43
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Portable Scanner

   Has anyone here used a portable scanner (preferably with a USB interface)
on a laptop/notebook with Xsane?

   I'm looking for recommendations for a unit I can carry with my portable
office to scan a lot of letter-size pages.

Rich

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Rich Shepard | 1 Oct 2009 18:28
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Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Dwight Hubbard wrote:

> I would love to find something like this although it would be really nice
> if it supported bluetooth so there aren't cables everywhere... (although I
> don't know if Sane supports bluetooth scanners)

Dwight,

   My research on the Sane Web site gave me some insight. I was hoping folks
here could provide more current information since I don't know how
frequently the devices list is updated.

   The one portable scaner I indentified so far is the Fujitsu SnapScan S300.
It's supported "good" on the Sane page; perhaps by now it warrants
"complete" status. But, it looks good enough for scanning documents and the
occasional color photograph. The selling price is about $245; Amazon seems
to be the lowest. It uses USB 2.0 and apparently a fast host helps. This
scanner has several lauditory reviews, including one on a Web site for
portable tools for lawyers.

   Unless I learn about another scanner I'll see if I can get client approval
to buy this. There's a reported "4 foot high stack of documents" at a state
agency that I'll need to review. I won't need copies of everything (whew!),
but there will be quite a few pages I'd rather scan than copy on paper and
scan back in the office.

   On the cable issue, I'll have only the notebook's power cord and, perhaps,
a small, external, USB mouse attached so one more USB cable won't matter to
me.
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Paul Heinlein | 1 Oct 2009 18:55
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Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> The one portable scaner I indentified so far is the Fujitsu SnapScan 
> S300. [....]

Rich,

We've got a couple SnapScan S500 scanners at our office. They're 
connected to Windows workstations, so I can't comment on Linux 
compatibility. Also, the S500 line has a different document feeder 
than the S300s.

I will say, however, that S500s are very good at scanning documents. 
Our legal and and contracts folks, who use them frequently, give 
them high marks.

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David Mandel | 1 Oct 2009 19:02

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Rich Shepard | 1 Oct 2009 19:17
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Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> We've got a couple SnapScan S500 scanners at our office. They're connected
> to Windows workstations, so I can't comment on Linux compatibility. Also,
> the S500 line has a different document feeder than the S300s.

Paul,

   According to the sane-project.org Web site, the S500 is discontinued, and
I cannot find a price for it. The images I see for that model suggest that
it's comparatively large and not designed to be easily transported in a
briefcase or computer bag. The sane support for the S500 is "complete."

Thanks,

Rich

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Bill Barry | 1 Oct 2009 19:27

Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard <at> appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   Has anyone here used a portable scanner (preferably with a USB interface)
> on a laptop/notebook with Xsane?
>
>   I'm looking for recommendations for a unit I can carry with my portable
> office to scan a lot of letter-size pages.
>
> Rich
>
> You can hardly go wrong with an Epson, most of them have "good" or
"complete" status in the  Sane Compatibility table. I use an Epson
perfection 1650 with Sane. It is not exactly small, but it is lightweight
and I have carried it many places to do scanning. I also have a Microtek
Scanmaker for large format scanning. It is not supported by Sane. It is
huge, but I put it in a rolling suitcase surrounded by a pad and have
carried it into  archives several times to scan large historical documents.

Bill
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Rich Shepard | 1 Oct 2009 20:25
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Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Bill Barry wrote:

> You can hardly go wrong with an Epson, most of them have "good" or
> "complete" status in the Sane Compatibility table.

Bill,

   I noticed the excellent support for Epson, but none of them is
particularly small. Carrying a full-page flatbed scanner is not as
convenient as one designed for portability, even if the latter is slower.

> perfection 1650 with Sane.

   This model is no longer available. The numbers are much higher now. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

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Bill Barry | 1 Oct 2009 20:35

Re: Portable Scanner

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard <at> appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > You can hardly go wrong with an Epson, most of them have "good" or
> > "complete" status in the Sane Compatibility table.
>
> Bill,
>
>   I noticed the excellent support for Epson, but none of them is
> particularly small. Carrying a full-page flatbed scanner is not as
> convenient as one designed for portability, even if the latter is slower.
>
> > perfection 1650 with Sane.
>
>   This model is no longer available. The numbers are much higher now. :-)
>
>
Yes, the new ones look tempting.   If you don't need a distortion free
image,  you can use a digital camera in a macro setting and just carry
around some type of tripod.

Bill
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Michael Robinson | 1 Oct 2009 21:31

Minitab dilemna...

It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and
worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system
that has 512 megs of ram.  I don't have that.  I have my Linux system
with 512 megs of ram.

What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15?  I'm needing 
to use it for a stats course.  Unfortunately, I don't know of any 
way to use it remotely.  Do the Windows computers at PSU have any 
means of being accessed remotely?

I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night, 
but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent
2 more months.  Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous.

Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15?

I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs
of ram and Windows XP, but it's in use.  I actually have a Pentium 4
desktop computer with a 1.80 Ghz processor and 256 megs of ram, but
that isn't enough ram to run Minitab and I don't know what kind of
DIMMs it takes.  It's an SIS micro atx board.

So I'm stuck either grabbing a copy of XP somehow and dual booting on
my Linux system, running Minitab via Wine, or using something else.
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Aaron Jorbin | 1 Oct 2009 22:02
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Re: Minitab dilemna...

I'm not familiar with Minitab or it's feature set ( I used SPSS in
college), but there are plenty of free alternatives.

R - http://www.r-project.org/ - is a stats programming language.
Gretyl - http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ - is more for econ regressions,
but might work
PSPP - http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ - is built as a free
alternative to spss

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software lists many
more alternatives.

On 10/1/09, Michael Robinson <plug_1 <at> robinson-west.com> wrote:
> It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and
> worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system
> that has 512 megs of ram.  I don't have that.  I have my Linux system
> with 512 megs of ram.
>
> What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15?  I'm needing
> to use it for a stats course.  Unfortunately, I don't know of any
> way to use it remotely.  Do the Windows computers at PSU have any
> means of being accessed remotely?
>
> I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night,
> but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent
> 2 more months.  Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous.
>
> Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15?
>
> I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs
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