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@khzimmer2@literatur.social @angusm@mastodon.social in that case I'm fairly confident you don't scan a lot of documents that require good OCR and good document compression. I run a Windows VM for the sole purpose of servicing a Brother ADS-1200 scanner. Every single alternative I've looked at has less accurate OCR, _and_ generates PDF's over twice the size of Brother's otherwise atrocious software. If you look up Open Source Zealot in any reputable source you'll find my picture to illustrate the entry. It's just a tough nut to crack. I sank serious money and time in this topic and just never found a way of improving scanning under UNIX-like OSes beyond the level of scanning using the Brother ADS-1700, which sucks as bad under Windows as it does under Linux. It's not as if Windows or Brother are the magic bullet. I'd love the idea of open source leapfrogging the software for the ADS-1200, but there will be tons of isolated use cases that don't lend themselves to easy solutions.