The software drivers needed to operate a wide variety of document scanning devices are preinstalled on distributions of Ubuntu Linux. In additon, Ubuntu includes a basic scanning application that lets ...

Linux: The default image scanning app on most Linux desktops, XSane, has many, many buttons and sliders. When all you want to do is make a PDF from text, or scan a picture, Simple Scan is there for ...

Often, even if we do catch a virus, it's not so difficult to eradicate it using installed antivirus—but if your system has been crippled, try using Linux to scan the drive for viruses instead. As any ...

Kooka scanning/saving/printing is clumsy at best and sometimes scrambles the image (diagonal blurring).<BR><BR>My scanner, Umax Astra 1220U, worked fine with Windows 98 and the included copy utility, ...

So at a particular site I manage there's a photocopier print centre (Canon CLC) that's on its way out and the print costs aren't as economical as they once were. So I started looking at replacing it ...