Epson's software is far better than Vuescan. I've used both extensively and I frequently scan for publication. The Epson software is easier to use and allows finer adjustment .
Paul via phone > On Feb 26, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > >>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 3:01 PM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 26 February 2016 at 20:52 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> 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? > > Cheers, Christine > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
