On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, David Henningsson wrote:
On 10/14/2013 09:45 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
I am running 12.04.3 on the machine that has the scanner. Maybe newer
versions support colour.
Next to the "Scan" button there is a drop-down menu. Select "text" for
quick monochrome scan. Select "photo" for slower color scan.
I just tried it on 12.04.3 - it works here. In color, definitely.
Hardware is a HP PSC 1210, if that matters.
Ah! An unlabeled button that doesn't mention colour. Ya that works.
Ok, having figgured that out. Is there anyone who uses scanning for
critical things where colour setup and other such things matter who can
tell us which scanning application gives the best results? Or do people
scan first and then use a second app to mess the colour around? Is there
any control that sw can do to change how the image is scanned? Lamp
intensity (which would change its colour too I would guess)? Anything
else?
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Some googling around later... I see instructions for scanning from gimp.
They don't work. Read it again and I see I need XSane or xscanimage to
make it work. I load XSane and yup I can scan an image directly into
gimp... Cool. xscanimage shows up too, but I haven't tried to actually
scan with it. It is included in the sane package, so probably the same
backend. It seems there are gimp plugins that will import direct from
cameras too.
Also found while googling... a mention of open office doing scanning, let
me try libreoffice. Yes Draw, Write and Impress in libreoffice claim to
import scans as well. (this machine doesn't have a scanner hooked up so I
can't tell)
Anyway, It appears there is at least room to check this out. I would think
being able to scan directly into gimp would be a desirable thing for the
graphics and photo metas. xscanimage does not come with a *.desktop file
and would not run that way if there is no scan device anyway so maybe that
is just as well. It doesn't put up a GUI error dialog either, just puts
the error to STDERR. That may make it look broken, better to use XSane if
we want a menu entry.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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