Hello Andrew,

On 2/10/19, Andrew Greig via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:

Hi Mark,

Canon, with a lot of Linux drivers for their printers and scanners, normally
has a link on their website to the OpenSource drivers, try the Canon Website
for your product and you may find the link you need.

Andrew Greig

Did a google search and looking at the Canon Europe page, "Available
Drivers (0)" which matches other material, all talking about sane and
scanimage and versions thereof for Linux and BSD related systems.

It looks like 1.0.27 is still in testing, and I am not looking to go
there, at least at this time. In the meantime, I am photographing
essential documents with a good Pentax digital camera, then cropping
and altering the white and shadow balance. I have an old Nokia classic
phone, but jiggle too much when trying to photograph with that. I also
have a Huawei android phone with no sim, and a Telstra cheap Android
tablet, again no sim. Getting a photo off the Huawei is "difficult",
and the cheap Telstra tablet is very difficult to get to respond to
the screen presses, getting it to take the photo can be a frustrating
hour, and still no image. I know why it has such a poor reputation.

Regards,

Mark Trickett
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Hi Mark,

Given that you are equipped with Android gear, I recommend that you D/L the CamScanner app. It uses the camera and after the initial scan will correct keystone and save a a pdf (much better than a jpg or png), if you buy the paid version it will index the pages using a cloud based ocr feature, it is quick and excellent and I use it when I am away from my trusty Epson GT7000S (SCSI). The benefit of the ocr and indexing for you is that if you can remember what your topic was you could have a stab at a key-word and it will find it quickly for you.

Andrew