Kikkoman

There are 4 things going for this scanner.

1. Its cheap ($50)
2. Its small
3. Its powered via the USB (no wall wart power cord)
4. Its got Mac (manufacturer) and Linux (not manufacturer) support.

Good stuff. However the Windows/Mac software that is provided is less that ideal.

1. It doesn’t let you do a “preview” scan. Eg I threw something on the scanner, do a quick very lo rez scan, and then let me use the mouse to select part of the picture I really want to scan. The scanning tools under linux do that.
2. It insists on “linking” to something. On windows it “links” to the AcDeeSee wanna-be software that it comes with. Eg, after the scan is done, it hands the picture over to somebody else to display. So on the Mac you will probably want to link it to the Preview app.
3. The Linux support is no _all_ there yet. Yes you can scan, but the the colors are off. This is on Fedora Core 1. Supposedly, the latest greatest SANE has color calibration routines, so I will try fiddling with those.