> On 26 February 2016 at 22:56 Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 26, 2016, at 3:01 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 26 February 2016 at 20:52 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Also, I'd appreciate suggestions on software that would work well with > >> it, particularly for converting negatives into positives. I have both > >> Mac and Linux computers available. > > > > I think Vuescan is still the standard. It seems to work with virtually any > > scanner ever built and all popular OSs. The only regular fault that I know > > of > > are issues with odd colour balances. Experienced this myself and had to > > reinstall to fix it. One pay and permanent updates. I like Mr Hamrick's > > business model. > > > To Mike’s point, here’s the link to the VueScan Scanner Software: > http://www.hamrick.com > > And from the webpage: > > "VueScan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG and TIFF > formats. It can also recognize text using OCR and create multi-page pdfs using > both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders” > > The Epson software does the same as described above—the multi-page PDF feature > is great when scanning multipage materials for my students. Optical Character > Recognition (ORC) software is included. I’ll have to start playing around > with the photo crease reduction and dust removal features—see how far I can > push them for prints and negatives. > > I’m not sure what I would gain by downloading VueScan, since I have the same > features with Epson’s software. Any thoughts if VueScan’s software is, in > fact, superior to Epson’s software?
The big plus I found for Vuescan when applied to my (once, state of the art; now, desperately ancient) Canon film scanner is that it allowed multiple pass scanning, which the Canon software did not. The really big downside to Vuescan is the utterly unintuitive interface. It was (I haven't used it for a very long time) the most unfriendly GUI software I've ever used. That may have changed. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
