From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 12/5/25 6:03 PM, TimW wrote:   
   > I want to scan a small quantity of negatives as I sort through some old   
   > family stuff, and turn them into jpegs. I once had a slide scanner I   
   > think from Lidl which was perfectly good enough for my purposes. I   
   > chucked it out when I couldn't get it to work on any windows after XP,   
   > let alone linux.   
   >   
   > I am thinking I might be on a hiding to nothing hoping that any of the   
   > cheap consumer type scanners I can buy will work on linux mint. Is there   
   > any way of even knowing if they will work? Will some of them have   
   > generic drivers and just work? Are any known to work?   
   >   
   > TW   
   Do you have any links to some you've already found?   I mean ones that seem to   
   have merit.   
   When I did have a large bulky scanner that had a tray to scan 4 at a time, I   
   found that   
   VueScan software was the best going.   And there are a lot of write-ups about   
   it too.   
      
   https://www.hamrick.com/film-slide-scanning-software.html   
   And it seems to have a Linux version.   
      
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