Vim Visual wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Yet almost an amateur, I have totally moved to OpenBSD, I have
> preordered my CDs, I bought them in the last release, tshirt/s too and
> I am a missionary of the Unique Truth and try to convert all salvages
> around me to it.
> 
> Now, I am looking forward to buying a scanner. I don't want a scanner,
> printer, washing machine and vacuum cleaner, I just want a scanner
> that scans documents and pictures. That's it.
> 
> ... and I wonder whether any of you has a recommendation for me.
> 
> Do you?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Pau Amaro Seoane
> 
Hi Vim,
I know you're not looking for a washing machine and vacuum cleaner, but 
perhaps you should look at the Brother and HP MFC models.  The HP 7650 
has an auto-document feeder (ADF) which was a must have for me.  Because 
of the ADF it can scan both sides with the built in duplexer.  (It can 
also print duplex.)

The nice part about the scanner is it can be configured (via web 
interface) to scan to an SMB file share.  I'm running Samba on OpenBSD 
4.1 and have it scan straight to the share and then pick-up my scans 
from the folder.  The only trouble I've had is occasionally the scanner 
will complain about not being able to find the share.  It will usually 
find it once I push "OK" and restart the scan.

I haven't tried SANE with it nor have I tried printing from OpenBSD.  We 
print typically from OS X.  However, HP have been really working with 
the community to release all the code necessary to print with CUPS (and 
perhaps with lpn).  It should just work(tm).

I used to have a Brother 38xx that could scan straight to a card.  That 
was my solution back then.

Good luck finding what you want.

--Aaron