Re: Scanning program for linux
I only tried it on windows and it was inferior to the epson software but have a look at vuescan, it has a linux version and look ok http://www.hamrick.com/ linux version seems to be http://www.hamrick.com/files/vuesca84.tgz It's not free though but it has a free trial (I think it embeds $ signs on the image so that it won't be usable but you can see the quality it gives you) On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:14, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, I have an HP scanner 3200c ; I had tried using it both on linux and on windows. Currently the results on windows are really much better. For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. It could be that there are better scanning programs on linux or that it is something in the configuration of sane. I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? Regards, Dan = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanning program for linux
On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:14, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, I have an HP scanner 3200c ; I had tried using it both on linux and on windows. Currently the results on windows are really much better. For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. It could be that there are better scanning programs on linux or that it is something in the configuration of sane. All free scanning programs in Linux are using the SANE backend (its the only sane way.. I couldn't resist :-p ). If you had quality issues with scanning in Linux, I would guess its due to sub-optimal scan settings (DPI?) as I'm scanning a lot in Linux and had no problems - quality is comparable with results in windows, for the same settings. You might want to try and duplicate the settings of your windows scan program in you favorite SANE frontend. (most frontends default to 75 DPI which produces inferior quality for anything other then low fidelity gray scale text). I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? I'm using Kooka from the KDE project which is great though I don't like their concept of scans gallery. The GNOME scanner is much simpler but also does a good job and is less of a hassle to run (I have no idea what its called - its named simple gnome scan tool). -- Oded ::.. PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. -- the Devil's Dictionary / Ambrose Bierce = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanning program for linux
For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. [snip] I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? I'm using Kooka from the KDE project which is great though I don't like their concept of scans gallery. The GNOME scanner is much simpler but also does a good job and is less of a hassle to run (I have no idea what its called - its named simple gnome scan tool). [snip] I'm using quiteinsane. I find it slightly friendlier than xsane. Vassilii = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanning program for linux
Hi, I assumed you used this driver: http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net from my past experience, many scanning drivers for SANE were reversed engineered (specially for the scanners with the parallel port) and many of them had issues (only scanning at 300 DPI, 600DPI results are sometimes look weird, non-responsivness from the scanner, etc...) Today, the situation is quite different. HP as well as Canon and many famous scanner/printer manufacturers do help with the development of scanner drivers (for example, HP helps with the HPLIP), so most of the USB scanners that you can buy these days cheaply, will work happillly on your linux. Thanks, Hetz On 3/1/07, Dan Shimshoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an HP scanner 3200c ; I had tried using it both on linux and on windows. Currently the results on windows are really much better. For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend ( http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. It could be that there are better scanning programs on linux or that it is something in the configuration of sane. I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? Regards, Dan -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanning program for linux
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:14:09AM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, I have an HP scanner 3200c ; I had tried using it both on linux and on windows. Currently the results on windows are really much better. For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. It could be that there are better scanning programs on linux or that it is something in the configuration of sane. I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? You have to be careful what you think are good results. Many of the Windows scanning programs process the image to produce good looking pictures. For example, my HP scanner's program has a check box somewhere which optimizes images for the screen. It's labeled something like improve scan quality which it does the exact opposite. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
