"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in
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I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) CCD interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.

While we are talking CCD sensors, any recommendations for ones that are
readily and reliably available at affordable prices?

I just want a linear sensor to scan paper whizzing past.

Doesn't have to be very high resolution, 1K seems fine.

I just don't want to design something in and have to redesign it due to a
sensor going obsolete/unobtainable every few months. Wishful thinking?

Having looked at some data sheets, there seems a great deal of similarity
(clock in, analogue pixels out) so maybe it isn't a big deal.

Pulling a CCD out of an old flatbed scanner
may be cheaper and quicker than getting new samples,
but means hunting for a data sheet. (Bad Toshiba again?).

I wonder if a PC scanner might have more pixels than I want, but then again
I can always merge adjacent pixels together to lower the resolution.