[Gnumed-devel] Scanning and Linux (vs Windows & Mac)

[James Busser]

I am familiar with Windows and Mac, where ether can have a USB  
scanner directly connected to the PC. I am also familiar with older  
Macs when they used to have SCSI connectors.

Windows and Macs presently also allow printer-sharing of USB printers  
but as far as I can tell they do not (or do not reliably or easily)  
allow scanning functions to be shared across the network.

I am not sure about the current status of XSANE on the Mac.

Has anyone been acquiring successfully from inside GNUmed (Attach  
documents plug-in > Scan page(s) ) from Windows using TWAIN or have  
people been using Linux?

If I were to wish to set up scanning from a machine running Linux  
(Debian) would GNUmed's XSANE see a directly-connected USB scanner or  
would the scanner need to be connected to a special hardware  
interface, network machine etc?