Scanner running on Linux

[Derek Magee]

I'll also offer my opinion and not answer the question :-) Think carefully about buying cheap slide scanners for low throughput applications. Cheap scanners typically have a single slide capacity and thus require a lot of human effort and time (in professional scanners you can load 10s of slides at a time). Factoring in the scanner and human time cost it is often cheaper just to send slides to someone to scan (there are many commercial organisations and universities with spare capacity that will do this for you quite cheaply. Get in touch if you are in the uk, we often scan slides for other people at close to cost.). Microscope+camera solutions are only really suitable for very small numbers of slides (unless you have a very cheap technician).
If you want high numbers of slides then you'll want (and get included) a dedicated scanning pc anyway, so the Linux/mac/windows argument isn't so important. I'd advise buying from a big vendor, and none to my knowledge supplies a Linux based solution. However, once the slides are scanned there is no reason why a Linux based image serving/analysis solution could not be used, or a Linux web client used for most Web based systems (commercial or open source). Avoid Olympus, ge (they are exiting the market anyway) for now and go for a vendor supported by open-slide or ome (ideally both.. Most open source software will be based on one or the other).

My 2p

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On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:14 PM +0200, "PD Dr. M. Weihrauch via openslide-users" <openslide-users at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:openslide-users at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:

I dont know about Linux scanners, but this really looks like a cool
thing, if you do not need to scan hundreds of images:

http://www.microvisioneer.com/

BTW: if you want to integrate high-res images to your website or share
high-res images, you can freely use our easyzoom.com.

Best regards

Martin


Am 16.09.2016 um 21:24 schrieb Marcelo Ave via openslide-users:
> Greetings,
> I am a Dermatologist at the office but a pretty enthusiast for Open
> Source Technologies.
> Is there any portable digital slide scanner that can run on Linux ?
>
> Marcelo N. Ave, MD
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