On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, ToddAndMargo wrote:

>   Anyone have a favorite flat bed scanner that is SL friendly?

I think SL scanner support is good enough that you can start by looking
at the available scanners that do what you need for an acceptable price
and *then* investigate linux support.

For example, my wife's EPSON XP 830 Series printer has a flatbed scanner.
The printer and the scanner both work fine with my SL6 linux system 
without significant effort.
I don't use the scanner often and have to remind myself what the
scanner command is called. I think you can scan via the web interface,
but IIRC I use the imagescan rpm that came with the device:

# rpmquery -i imagescan
Name        : imagescan                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.23.0                            Vendor: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Release     : 1epson4centos6                Build Date: Wed 16 Nov 2016 02:35:37 GMT
Install Date: Wed 14 Dec 2016 14:13:12 GMT      Build Host: 0d8184f41cd6
Group       : Unspecified                   Source RPM: imagescan-3.23.0-1epson4centos6.src.rpm
Size        : 13497045                         License: GPLv3+
Signature   : (none)
URL         : http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
Summary     : Next Generation Image Acquisition Utilities
Description :
This software provides applications to easily turn hard-copy documents
and imagery into formats that are more amenable to computer processing.

Included are a native driver for a number of EPSON scanners and a
compatibility driver to interface with software built around the SANE
standard.

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