> On Feb 26, 2016, at 5:09 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
that’s a really big downside for me. I don’t have much patience for fussy user interfaces. C -- 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.
