Bob Marcan writes:
Looking for affordable scanner:
no multifunction device (bad experience with Canon)
supported by sane
flatbed
a4 format
scan plain documents
scan photographs in color
scan photographs in B&W (brown&white, my grandpa was born 1888)
scan negative & slides
USB or WIFI
Most Fujitsu scanners are directly supported in SANE. I have it on good
authority that Fujitsu actively supports the SANE project, and often
supplies new hardware in advance, so that support can be developed in
advance of general availability.
Fujitsu scanners are a bit pricier that the competition, though. The
cheapest full-sized scanner I see on Amazon is the iX500 at four hundred
bucks, and, yup, it's listed on
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-
backends.html with "Good" support.