From: timw@nomailta.co.uk   
      
   On 05/12/2025 23:03, 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   
      
      
   Thanks all for the answers. A solution has presented itself this morning   
   - Some scanners will write a jpeg directly to an SD card, no computer   
   required, no drivers, can't fail!   
      
   Tim W   
      
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