On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > Have you tried EPSON Kowa's IScan? > > You can download it from this link: > http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html > > I don't know if this will produce better scans. I don't have this > scanner, > so I don't have any first hand experience. What I know is that the IScan > software produces pretty good scans (even from negatives) with other > EPSON scanners. >
I have. It produces slightly better scans than xsane for normal documents (flatbed). Iscan, however, refuses to recognize the transparency unit and thus the negative scanning option is not available for 1260. I even tweaked the interface code such that the TPU selection came available, but this resulted in "can't send command to the scanner" and a segfault. I also noticed that IScan warms up the scanner much longer than xsane... One other thing is that after a reboot I have to do a preview with iscan before xsane works properly. I wonder what that's all about... I know it's off topic, but no one has yet asnwered wether the original software provided by Epson for windows provides scans beyond what a skilled person can do with xsane and what ever other image manipulation software under linux. In other words, wether it uses features of the scanner that xsane cannot access. -Timo