On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:

> Tonite, someone was good enough to point out the SANE tool for Scanner 
> support on Linux.  Sane appears to handle scanners on SCSI and USB but 
> not Parallel.  Any thoughts on getting a UMax 2000P Parallel scanner to 
> work?

Is this the UMax Astra 2000P?  If so, this uses sane's umax_pp scanner 
driver through the parport driver in EPP mode.  Reports give thumbs up.  
Let me know if you need any help getting it to work.

http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-umax_pp.5.html