I'm interested in a good scanner which should work good in Ubuntu 16.04 with a graphic program. Bestseller on amazon is canon lide 220, but there seems to be some problems with the driver. Can you suggest a good scanner?
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Checking the version of SANE (acronym for Scanner Access Now Easy, the driver project for scanning on Linux) for Ubuntu 16.04, the default version is 1.0.14. Looking on the SANE scanner model search tool the support for that device is:
CanoScan LiDE 220 USB 0x04a9/0x190f complete GL124+ based, resolution from 75 to 4800 dpi
It looks like this particular model should work well on Linux. I do not have a device to confirm, however. If you are not specifically interested in that model, there are many others listed there on the site, which are older/newer/more featureful/etc.