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I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.
Vuescan is great, and near as I can tell it's one guy. Totally worth it.
Yeah, I think you're right. I forgot to add that there's no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren't a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.