This area can be a real problem under Wine. The high end scanners such as the Minolta MS6000 simply aren't supported by SANE backend. If you want to use one then you must write code for the backend. You can usually get a basic TWAIN driver which is for Win. 98. These usually run under Wine. The real problem is doing anything with the TWAIN result. Things such as Acrobat Professional don't currently work under Wine. Neither does most of the picture software such as the Kodak software supplied in Win 98. This is the result of several unimplemented stubs and a couple of missing dlls. Some of the Omnipage software may work under Wine but I haven't had time to test it. I don't know of a good solution for the TWAIN problem under Wine or directly under Linux. If anyone else has a solution let's hear it.